In the summer the willows, full of leaf, and exactly appropriate to the flat lacustrine outline of the eyot and the reach, are full of birds, though the reed-warbler does not always return.
The quantitative estimate of the amount of this flora has revealed its enormous aggregate amount and therefore its great importance in the economy of oceanic and lacustrine animal life.
Another lacustrineregion extends from the Shoa heights south-west to the Samburu (Lake Rudolf) depression.
This remarkable phenomenon is explained by the position of Aussa in the centre of a saline lacustrine depression several hundred feet below sea-level.
The latter is the second largest lacustrinebody of water in the State.
Pike is fairly within the great lacustrine region of Minnesota, where there are more lakes than have ever been counted.
This rice grows in profusion in all the lacustrine regions of the N.
Being cooled by the rains, it comes south into the hot valley of this great Riverein Lake, or lacustrine river.
There is, it seems, a reflux for about three months in each year, flow and reflow being the effect of the rains and evaporation on a lacustrine river of some three hundred miles in length lying south of the equator.
A good many patches of fine lacustrine clay were in sight, on both banks.
In most parts of the valley I found a great deal of alluvium, but I saw none of the fine clay which is characteristic of the purely lacustrine strata above the village of Bilergu, where I had observed it in April.
In the neighbourhood of Lama-Yuru lacustrine clay occurs in great abundance, and the ascent to the summit of this pass was gentle, up a gravelly valley, which was full of alluvium, almost to the very summit.
This lacustrine formation forms elevated platforms, which are from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet or more above the level of the river.
Alluvial boulder clay was common in the valley; and I saw also a great deal of the fine cream-coloured clay, which I have elsewhere noticed as being probably of lacustrine origin.
These lacustrine strata occupied both sides of the valley along which the road lay.
Further on, cliffs of lacustrine clay again rose perpendicularly from the river.
Their date is not, perhaps, always earlier than that of the first lacustrine deposits, and it is possible that it agrees with that of ancient Egyptian monuments, and of ancient Chinese books.
However, I noticed just now that the lacustrine remains of Mondsee and Laybach show no trace of any flax.
At this point, the ancient drift, the lacustrine clay of Milwaukie and the prairie diluvium of Chicago, constitute a succession, of which the surface is a slightly waving line of the most fertile soils.
Thus, after surmounting the step of the Packagama Falls, we enter on a wide and far stretching plateau which embraces the great area of Leech Lake, and its numerous lacustrine beds.
Fluvial and lacustrine Delaware, Susquehanna, deposits of this time, Potomac, and other with those of the first rivers.
The formation there is a lacustrine deposit of great thickness, belonging to the upper Miocene, and abounding in flint.
The one, of lacustrine or of estuary origin, exhibits chiefly the productions of the land and its fresh waters; the other, as decidedly of marine origin, is charged with the remains of animals whose proper home was the sea.
It would seem, however, that the loess in which the skull occurred belongs to the latest in the lacustrine series, and consequently does not imply any very great antiquity for it.
Samuel Aughey made known the existence in Nebraska of “hundreds of miles of similar lacustrine deposits, almost level or gently rolling.
These are the so-called “lacustrine deposits,” which are believed to have had their origin from the former presence of vast lakes, now either extinct or represented by comparatively small bodies of water.
The Missouri, during the closing centuries of the lacustrine age, must have been from five to thirty miles in breadth, forming a stream which for size and majesty rivalled the Amazon.
Loose red sand also constantly forms low hills on the borders of these plains; and it seems to have been derived from the decomposition of the sandstone, and may be a diluvial or lacustrine deposit.
I could see no high land to the westward, and the hill on which I stood seemed to divide the singular lacustrine country from that where the character of the surface was fluviatile.
In lacustrine strata thus intersected, works of art and fresh-water shells are seen.
De la Beche's opinion that much of the upper portion of this old lacustrine formation has been removed by denudation.
That in the United States the Mastodon giganteus was very abundant after the drift period, is evident from the fact that entire skeletons of this animal are met with in bogs and lacustrine deposits occupying hollows in the glacial drift.
If land predominated, the only monuments we are likely ever to find of Miocene date are those of lacustrine and volcanic origin, such as the Bovey Coal in Devonshire, the Ardtun beds in Mull, or the lignites and associated basalts in Antrim.
The actual junction, however, of the lacustrine beds and the granite is rarely seen, as a small valley usually intervenes between them.
Leaves of plants supposed to belong to the order Proteaceae have been obtained partly from Oeningen and partly from the lacustrine formation of the same age at Locle in the Jura.
There are, however, causes at work which, in the course of centuries, tend to render visible these modern formations, whether of marine or lacustrine origin.
Lakes Maggiore and Como, and some smaller lacustrine reservoirs, and never reaches the sea.
To prove the fresh-water origin of these deposits, we need only refer to the modules of travertine and the shells of lacustrine animals which they contain.
This lacustrine formation rests in turn on deposits of marine origin, containing oysters, patellae, and other sea-shells, of which the chain of hills on the right bank of the Tiber is chiefly formed.
Except towards the south-west, about Aurillac, where lacustrine strata overlie the granite, the platform from which rises the volcanic dome is composed of granitic or gneissose rocks.
Returning to Utah we are brought into contact with phenomena of special interest, owing to the inter-relations of volcanic and lacustrine conditions which once prevailed over large tracts of that territory.
A new outburst of volcanic forces marks this stage, during which the chain of the Puy de Dome was thrown up on the west, and that of the newer cones of the Vivarais on the south-east of the lacustrine tract.
Such depositions we find in the valleys lying north of the City of Mexico (Zumpango, Tequixquiac) and in the lacustrine area of Anahuac, also in the famous fossiliferous basin of Florissant, in Colorado.
The physiognomy of the upper Yukon Valley supports this contention, and even to-day the river has not yet fully escaped from a lacustrine condition which is merely fragmental of a previous state.
The cultivable areas are confined to tracts overlain by lacustrineclays which alternate along the shores with glacial gravels and the bare rock surfaces devoid of any soil cover.
Lacustrine clays, composed of the rock flour once held in suspension by glacial streams and deposited by them as they reached the quiet waters of a great lake, are essentially the soils of this region.
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