. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. 4i8 Appendix. rf fc. years ago a keen discussion, and has given rise to a portentous mass of geological literature. The combatants, as in most warfares, scientific or other, ranged themselves into two camps. There were the Convulsiouists, or believers in the paramount efficacy ot subterranean movement, who, starting from the universally admitted proofs of upheaval, crumpling, and fracture, sought
. Camps in the Rockies [microform] : being a narrative of life on the frontier, and sport in the Rocky Mountains, with an account of the cattle ranches of the West. Camping; Hunting; Camping; Chasse. 4i8 Appendix. rf fc. years ago a keen discussion, and has given rise to a portentous mass of geological literature. The combatants, as in most warfares, scientific or other, ranged themselves into two camps. There were the Convulsiouists, or believers in the paramount efficacy ot subterranean movement, who, starting from the universally admitted proofs of upheaval, crumpling, and fracture, sought an explanation of the present inequalities of the land in unequal disturbance from below. On the other hand, there were the Erosionists, or upholders of the efficacy of superficial waste, who maintained that besides the elevations due to subterranean causes, mountains, valleys, and all the other features of a landscape have been gradually carved into their present shapes by the slow abrasion of the air, rain, rivers, frosts, and the other agents of subaerial erosion. Tiie contest, which was keen enough some years ago, has for a while almost ceased among us, though an occasional shot from younger combatants, fired with the old enthusiasm, serves to keep alive the memory of the campaign. *' Having long ago attached myself to the camp of the Erosionists, though by no means inclined to do battle under the extreme ' quietist' banners of some of its champions ... I have long been convinced, that for the proper discussion of the real efficacy of sup>'rficial erosion in the development of a terrestrial surface, the geologists of Europe have been at great disadvantage. The rocks in these regions have undoubtedly been subjected to so many changes—squeezed, crumpled, fractured, upiieaved, and depressed—that the effects of tinequal erosion upon tlieir surface has been masked by those of subterranean disturbance. The problem has thus become much more com- j)licated than, with simpler
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