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Page 144 - ... white color or the clouded shadings of marble, and the brown and yellowish-brown of some sandstones, colored by iron, to red, making red sandstone and jasper rock. 3. In most but not all cases, a partial or complete expulsion of water; serpentine contains 13$ of water. 4. An evolving and expelling of oil or gas, as when bituminous coal is changed to anthracite or to graphite. 5. An obliteration of all fossils, or, if the metamorphism is partial, of nearly all. The obliteration is usually preceded...
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Page 167 - ... to the flattening of all air cells and compressible particles, and the arranging of all flat grains in planes. at right angles to the pressure. The pressure producing upturning, or flexure, and also mountain making, has generally been the cause of cleavage in upturned or flexed strata of fine grain. It conforms to the bedding whenever the bedding is, as a consequence of the upturning, at right angles, or nearly so, to the pressure. Flagstone, or lamination cleavage, crystalline cleavage, and...
Page 97 - Consequently, where the current is swift, the bottom (if not consisting of rocky ledges) is stony or pebbly ; and where the water is still, or nearly so, the bottom is muddy. Slow rivers and small lakes have commonly muddy borders. Amount of Material Transported. — The amount of transported material varies with the size and current of the rivers and the kind of country they flow through. The Mississippi carries annually to the Gulf of Mexico, according to Humphreys and Abbot, on an average, 812,500,000,000...