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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12733774823).jpg OF THE VALLEY OF THE EHINE <br> 87 <br> that in modern times the Rhine has often changed its channel winding <br> hither and thither all across the plain between the Schwarzwald and <br> the Vosges and leaving terraces sometimes remote from its present <br> banks As it acted then and is doing now so it must have acted <br> in the post-Miocene times recorded in this memoir till at length <br> Fig 2 ” Map showing the Distribution of Miocene strata north of the <br> Pre-Miocene Alps in the area now occupied by the Shine between <br> Basel and Mainz <br> A A Miocene strata B C D Pre-Miocene mountains Schwarzwald Vosges <br> c bordering Miocene waters E Pre-Miocene Alps bordering Mio- <br> cene waters <br> The arrow indicates the direction of the drainage in part of what is now the <br> Rhine valley <br> the greater part of the high plain of Miocene strata was worn away ; <br> and the tabular uplands near Basel and Mainz now bordering the <br> modern plain remain to attest the amount of denudation that the <br> valley has suffered by watery erosion <br> This hypothesis readily accords with the occurrence of stratified <br> banks of gravel at various levels above those of the more modern <br> river-terraces which are common in the plain If also much of the <br> Loess be only river-mud of a comparatively ancient date and per- <br> haps partly of glacier origin this view helps to account for its 35765944 110599 51125 Page 86 Text v 30 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35765944 1874 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 30 1874 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35765944 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35765944 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-24 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12733774823 2015-08-26 20 03 33 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1874 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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