Earth Features and Their Meaning
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The discussion of the lithosphere describes an abandoned view of the earth as a solid crust floating upon a liquid interior. The account of ocean deposits describes ooze formed from the hard parts of plant and animal organisms, sometimes containing whales' ear bones and sharks' teeth. The discussion of the deepest ocean deposits identifies red clay as material believed to come from volcanic dust or submarine volcanic eruption.
The account of glaciers questions the customary assumption that moving ice erodes its bed everywhere, restricting the warrant for that assumption to the marginal zone. The explanation of frozen rock notes that, unlike frozen water, the solid material sinks rather than floats in its molten equivalent.
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- William Herbert Hobbs
- Reading time
- About 11 hours
- Pages
- 542
- Language
- English
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