The Wonders of Geology, Or, a Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., volume 1
The Wonders of Geology, Or, a Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., volume 1
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While in the dis- trict I have just described, the primitive soil is only partially obscured by the volcanic products, in Mont Dor, the granitic foundation is covered over an area of many miles in extent, and the erupted masses attain a considerable elevation. Mont Dor is a mountainous tract, the highest portion of which is about 6,000 feet in altitude. It consists of seven or eight rocky summits, grouped together within a zone of a mile in diameter, the whole formed of a succession of beds of ...volcanic origin. It is deeply channelled by two principal valleys, and furrowed by many minor water-channels, all having their sources near the central eminence, and di- verging towards every point of the horizon. The beds of which this group is composed, consist of scoriae, pumice-stones, trachyte, and basalt; these rocks all. dip off from the central axis, and lie parallel to the sloping flanks of the mountain, as is the case in Etna, the Peak of Teneriffe, and all other insulated volcanic mountains (see the section of a volcano, PI.
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While in the dis- trict I have just described, the primitive soil is only partially obscured by the volcanic products, in Mont Dor, the granitic foundation is covered over an area of many miles in extent, and the erupted masses attain a considerable elevation. Mont Dor is a mountainous tract, the highest portion of which is about 6,000 feet in altitude. It consists of seven or eight rocky summits, grouped together within a zone of a mile in diameter, the whole formed of a succession of beds of ...volcanic origin. It is deeply channelled by two principal valleys, and furrowed by many minor water-channels, all having their sources near the central eminence, and di- verging towards every point of the horizon. The beds of which this group is composed, consist of scoriae, pumice-stones, trachyte, and basalt; these rocks all. dip off from the central axis, and lie parallel to the sloping flanks of the mountain, as is the case in Etna, the Peak of Teneriffe, and all other insulated volcanic mountains (see the section of a volcano, PI.
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