Chapter VI—DENUDATION.

Denudation defined. — Its Amount more than equal to the entire Mass of

Stratified Deposits in the Earth’s Crust. — subaërial Denudation. —

Action of the Wind. — Action of Running Water. — Alluvium defined. —

Different Ages of Alluvium. — Denuding Power of Rivers affected by Rise

or Fall of Land. — Littoral Denudation. — Inland Sea-Cliffs. —

Escarpments. — Submarine Denudation. — Dogger-bank. — Newfoundland

Bank. — Denuding Power of the Ocean during Emergence of Land.

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