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Identifier: physicalgeograph00tarr (find matches)
Title: The physical geography of New York state
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 Turner, E. T. (Ebenezer Tousey)
Subjects: Physical geography -- New York (State) Glacial epoch Great Lakes (North America) New York (State) -- Climate New York (State) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fio. 100. A sink hole in the region of Krutm-ky. mon in places, few have been discovered in New York.There are illustrations of this class of basin nearSprings on the shore of Lake C.-miga. LAKES Dri-: TO ACCIDENT. — One of the nio-i cways in which river slopes have been locally changed tobasins is by the development of a dam across a river 200 The Physical Geography of New York State
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course. dams are com-monly due tosome accidentby which thenormal devel-opment of theriver has beeninterrupted.For instance,the early set-tlers of NewYork foundhundreds ofthese pondsand swampscaused by thedams thrownacross smallstreams bybeavers. Someof these stillexist, and inparts of thecontinent, asin Canada andthe RockyMountains,these interest-ing animals areeven at pre-sent buildingtheir dams. A landslide or an avalanche may obstruct a streamcourse and transform it to a lake. Among lofty mountains,as in the Alps or Himalayas, vast dams of fallen rock haveformed good-sized lakes, and in New York there are alsoinstances of the same kind of basin, though very much FIG. 107. Ponds in sink-holes near Dodge City, Kansas(United States Geological Survey, Dodge sheet). ys <ti«! Sin/in/** smaller.1 Many of the landslip dams of New York havebeen formed where a stream, eating at the base of a bankof glacial till, has caused a slide to occur, which has tem-porarily transformed the stream t

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  • bookyear:1902
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  • bookcentury:1900
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  • bookauthor:Turner__E__T___Ebenezer_Tousey_
  • booksubject:Physical_geography____New_York__State_
  • booksubject:Glacial_epoch
  • booksubject:Great_Lakes__North_America_
  • booksubject:New_York__State_____Climate
  • booksubject:New_York__State_____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Macmillan_company
  • bookpublisher:_London__Macmillan___co___ltd_
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:221
  • bookcollection:newyorkpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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