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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. 
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— Cape of Good Hope. — Horsts.— Alps due not to 
upheaval, but to folds. — Amount of compression. — 
The Jura. — Amount of denudation. — Dip and strike. 
— Faults. — Anticlinals and synclinals. — Folding of solid 
lock, proof of. — Fractured fossils. — Cleavage ... 49 
CHAPTER III. 
THE MOUNTAINS OF SWITZERLAND. 
General direction of pressure. — The range due to folding, 
the separate summits being parts which have suffered 
least from denudation. — The Rhonc-Rhine Valley. — 
Geotectonic valleys, and valleys of erosion. — Trans- 
verse ranges. — Enormous amount of denudation. — 
The Secondary strata formerly extended over the sum- 
mits. — 12,000 feet of strata probably removed from 
Mont Blanc. — General section of Switzerland. — Folds, 
inversion, and overthrusts. — Earthquakes. — The Plain 
of Lombardy an area of sinking 81 
CHAPTER IV. 
SNOW AND ICE. 
Snow-fields. — The snow-line. — Firn or Neve.— Red snow. 
— Depth of snow. — Beauty of snow-lields.— Avalanches. 
— Glaciers. — Structure of glacier ice. — Glacier grains. 
— Movement of glaciers. — Rate of movement. — Cause 
of movement. — Regelation. — Crevasses. — V eined 
structure. — Dirtbands. — Moulins. — Moraines. — Ice 
tables. — The glacier of the Rhone. — Beauty of glaciers 1 00 
CHAPTER V. 
THE FORMER EXTENSION OF GLACIERS. 
Evidence of the former extension of glaciers. — Moraines 
and fluvio-glacial deposits. — Ancient moraines, distri- 
