The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 580 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. Tunuyan, continues to flow southwards. But the sluggish current is frequently dammed and even displaced by the shifting sands and high dunes drifting before the wind on these nearly horizontal plains. The river, which here takes the Fig. 154.—Ancient Basin of the Colorado. Scale 1 : 13,000,000. Depths. 0to5 Fathoms. m 5 to 10 Fathoms. 10 to 25 Fathoms. 25 Fathoms and . .-ÎIO Miles. fully justified name of Salado, wanders, so to siiy, under the action of the


The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 580 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. Tunuyan, continues to flow southwards. But the sluggish current is frequently dammed and even displaced by the shifting sands and high dunes drifting before the wind on these nearly horizontal plains. The river, which here takes the Fig. 154.—Ancient Basin of the Colorado. Scale 1 : 13,000,000. Depths. 0to5 Fathoms. m 5 to 10 Fathoms. 10 to 25 Fathoms. 25 Fathoms and . .-ÎIO Miles. fully justified name of Salado, wanders, so to siiy, under the action of the aerial currents. The Diamante, one of its affluents, which is stated to be to some extent navigable, has also shifted its channel under the same influences. Formerly


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