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each unit of the littoral zone, but they act way a broader zone 
and they are Competent to move larger masse 
Under the head of littoral deposition the iets of embankments, 
spits, bars, hooks, loops, wave-built terraces, V-terraces, V-bars 
and of dunes is discussed. 
The third section is devoted to the distribution of wave- 
wrought shore features; a fourth section to stream work and 
deltas. In a fifth section ice work and shore walls on lakes are 
described. After referring briefly in section six to the effects of 
submergence and emergence on the phenomena under considera- 
tion, attention is called in the seventh section to the discrimina- 
ion of shore features, under the head of cliffs, fault scarps, ter- 
races, fault terraces, etc., and ridges, the latter being contrasted 
with moraines and osars. Fi ig. 2 gives a good idea of the remark- 
able fault-scarps at Farmington, Utah. The ‘eighth and last sec- 
tion relates to the recognition of ancient shores 
e essay is upon a subiect of very general interest, every 
geologist having his attention drawn to the phenomena which the 
author explains. A similar work based on sea-shores would be 
of still wider interest and importance, though some attention is 
given to the subject i in our leading text-books on geology. 
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