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Geology in its Relations to Topography
If there are laws governing the origin and development of topographic forms, nothing is clearer than that a knowledge of these laws must be of great importance to those who have to deal with such forms; and, indeed, there is a constant demand, among those who have not devoted much time to a study of the subject, for short and simple empirical rules for topography. There are such rules for topographic forms, but they bold good only in limited areas, and fail utterly whenever their general application is attempted. There is also a widespread disposition to appeal for explanation, especially of bold topographic forms, to the supernatural, to violent cataclysmic disturbances, subterranean upheavals, volcanic out bursts and “blow-outs,” and to the Miltonian idea, in which: “The mountains huge appear emergent, and their broad, bare rocks upheave into the clouds.” One serious-minded writer thinks the great gorge in the Cascade Mountains, through which the Columbia River flows, was made by God drawing his finger across that range.
Geology in its Relations to Topography
If there are laws governing the origin and development of topographic forms, nothing is clearer than that a knowledge of these laws must be of great importance to those who have to deal with such forms; and, indeed, there is a constant demand, among those who have not devoted much time to a study of the subject, for short and simple empirical rules for topography. There are such rules for topographic forms, but they bold good only in limited areas, and fail utterly whenever their general application is attempted. There is also a widespread disposition to appeal for explanation, especially of bold topographic forms, to the supernatural, to violent cataclysmic disturbances, subterranean upheavals, volcanic out bursts and “blow-outs,” and to the Miltonian idea, in which: “The mountains huge appear emergent, and their broad, bare rocks upheave into the clouds.” One serious-minded writer thinks the great gorge in the Cascade Mountains, through which the Columbia River flows, was made by God drawing his finger across that range.
Geology in its Relations to Topography
Branner, John C. (author)
2021-01-01
261898-01-01 pages
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