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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita583recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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36 ISLANDS OF TKE NOETII ATLANTIC. artesian wells sunk near the coast. The heavier salt water penetrating through the deep fissures slowly upheaves the lighter fluid, which again subsides with the ebb. These land tides are generally one hour behind those of the sea. The Iceland seaboard is indented with numerous fiords, and the north-west peninsula especially presents a striking example of such diversified shores. But as a whole the coasts are less varied in this respect than Norway, Greenland, Fig. 15.—Nokth-West Peninsula of Iceland. Scale 1 : 1.50,000.
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20 Miles. North Scotland, or the Hebrides. This is probably due to the frequent volcanic eruptions, and to the consequent more rapid distribution of the alluvia. The ashes thrown up by the volcanoes, and the sudden floods produced by the melting of the snows about the craters, combined with the torrents of lava, have filled in most of the fiords on the south side, where nothing now remains except a few estuaries, or even basins already separated from the sea by narrow strips of sand.

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