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The Earth in Past Ages, by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick, New York: American Books Company, (1888)
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Stories of Our Mother Earth, by Harold W. Fairbanks,San Francisco: The Whitaker & Ray Company, (1899).
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The Story of the Yosemite Valley.........................................103
Where Our Salt Comes From.................................................
When the Mastodon Lived
The Story of the Colorado River
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This Home of Ours.................................................................
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What We Saw in an Ocean Cliff
How Islands are Formed.........................................................
Coal,TheWhereDownTheCrater....................................................................................126Lake...........................................................................131LavaPlateauoftheNorthwest......................................136inaGoldMine...........................................................141theQuicksilverisMade............................................148AutobiographyofaNugget...........................................154Graphite,Diamond.....................................................160
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An Extinct Volcano Caves
The History of a Package of Borax.........................................
A Rainstorm in the Desert......................................................
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The Work of the Wind...........................................................
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The Story of Petroleum
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The Making of Mountains
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The Story of San Francisco Bay..............................................
A Curious California River
An Ancient Oyster Bed
How the Soil is Formed
A Handful of Sand..................................................................
Introduction..............................................................................
Table of Contents
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Floor....................................................................... 18
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Table of Contents The Earth in Past Ages .......................................... 167 What is Geology? ..................................................................169 The Clue Found in the Rocks...............................................175 Water ....................................................................................185 The Reign of Fire ..................................................................195 Fire and Water ......................................................................205 The Ice-King at Work...........................................................215 Plants As Builders.................................................................225 The Builders Under the Sea..................................................235 The Crust of the Earth..........................................................245 TheTheTheAMetalsMountain-Building................................................................252atHome.....................................................................260StudyofBones..................................................................270DawnofLife..................................................................276ReignofFishes..............................................................285ReignofPlants..............................................................293 “Striking Oil”........................................................................303 Salt TheTheBirdsTheThe........................................................................................312ReignofReptiles............................................................318BottomoftheSea..........................................................329ofthePast....................................................................338ReignofLandMonsters.................................................348ComingofMan..............................................................357
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