Word: valleys
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Geological Conference. Paper: The Succession of the Crystalline Rocks from the Housatonic Valley to the Boston Basin. Professor B. K. Emerson, of Amherst. Geological Lecture Room...
...Meuse is a very narrow stream. The valley is wide and appears to have been eaten out by a much larger stream. The reason that the Meuse is so narrow is that its waters have been robbed by the Moselle. The Meuse winds in and out among steep bluffs, the bluff being always on the outside of the curve. The valley of the Meuse is a great vineyard growing country...
Geological Conference. Paper: The Succession of the Crystalline Rocks from the Housatonic Valley to the Boston Basin. Professor B. K. Emerson, of Amherst. Geological Lecture Room...
...relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news of further outrages by the Kurds in the valley of the Euphrates, the destruction of a whole town and the exile of its inhabitants, the slaughter of 1500 people, and the wounding of 3000 more...
This excursion will visit characteristic exposures of the Triassic sandstone and Lava beds of the Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...