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North America

OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. Relief map of North America ii

2. Profile of a continental shelf 2

3. Map of Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean region, showing topography of the sea-floor 17

4. Co-tidal lines 29

5. Profile of sea-cliff and cut-and-built terrace 33

6. Map of a portion of the Atlantic coast of the United States 35

7. Map of Mobile Bay 36

8. Map of Cape Cod 37

9. Map of the coast of Texas 39

10. Map of a portion of the coast of Maine 45

11. Map of the coast of southeastern Alaska 47

12. Map of the delta of the Mississippi 53

13. Map giving the names of the larger physiographic divisions of North America 61

14. Altitude map of North America 65

15. Map of the Appalachian Mountains 74

16. Section of anticlinal valleys and synclinal mountains 78

17. Profile showing relation of ancient peneplains in the Appalachians 81

18. Section through the Black Hills of Dakota 117

19. Sketch of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado River 134

20. Map of the Great Basin 137

21. Map of Crater Lake, Oregon 153

22. Mount Rainier, Washington 154

23. Map of Puget Sound 161

24. Map showing isobars for January and July 175

25. Ice-palace, Montreal 199

26. Map showing tracks of West Indian hurricanes 209

27. Map showing depth of evaporation in the United States 212

28. Map showing distribution of forests 215

29. Douglas firs, Vancouver 241

30. View in redwood forest of California, from photograph by U. S. Bureau of Forestry 242

31. Bison at Silver Heights, Winnipeg 275

32. Map showing range of bison 276

33. Maps showing the growth of the North American continent 303

34. Map showing the distribution of coal-fields 336

35. Ideal section through an oil and gas pool beneath an anticlinal 339

36. Lodge or tepee of Blackfoot Indians, Manitoba 387

37. Panorama of Uxmal, Yucatan 390

38. Pointed arches in Central American ruins 393

39. Carved stonework, Uxmal, Yucatan 394

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