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Earth Features and Their Meaning

by William Herbert Hobbs

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Illustrations in the Text
  3. 3Explanatory List of Abbreviations for Journal Names in Reading Refe…
  4. 4Chapter I — The Compilation of Earth History
  5. 5Chapter II — The Figure of the Earth
  6. 6Chapter III — The Nature of the Materials in the Lithosphere
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Rocks of the Earth’s Surface Shell
  8. 8Chapter V — Contortions of the Strata Within the Zone of Flow
  9. 9Chapter VI — The Architecture of the Fractured Superstructure
  10. 10Chapter VII — The Interrupted Character of Earth Movements: Earthqu…
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Interrupted Character of Earth Movements: Earthq…
  12. 12Chapter IX — The Rise of Molten Rock to the Earth’s Surface
  13. 13Chapter X — The Rise of Molten Rock to the Earth’s Surface
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Attack of the Weather
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Life Histories of Rivers
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Earth Features Shaped by Running Water
  17. 17Chapter XIV — The Travels of the Underground Water
  18. 18Chapter XV — Sun and Wind in the Lands of Infrequent Rains
  19. 19Chapter XVI — The Features in Desert Landscapes
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Repeating Patterns in the Earth Relief
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — The Forms Carved and Molded by Waves
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Coast Records of the Rise or Fall of the Land
  23. 23Chapter XX — The Glaciers of Mountain and Continent
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Continental Glaciers of Polar Regions
  25. 25Chapter XXII — The Continental Glaciers of the “Ice Age”
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Glacial Lakes Which Marked the Decline of the Last…
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — The Uptilt of the Land at the Close of the Ice Age
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Niagara Falls a Clock of Recent Geological Time
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — Land Sculpture by Mountain Glaciers
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — Successive Glacier Types of a Waning Glaciation
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — The Glacier’s Surface Features and the Deposits Up…
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — A Study of Lake Basins
  33. 33Chapter XXX — The Ephemeral Existence of Lakes
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — The Origin and the Forms of Mountains
  35. 35Appendix A
  36. 36Appendix B
  37. 37Appendix C
  38. 38Appendix D
  39. 39Appendix E

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