Denudation of the two Americas

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Abstract
WHEN in 1876 I had the honor to deliver a Presidential address to this Society I chose as its subject matter ,.Geological Time," I then had the pleasure to lay before you some calculations relating to "Chemical Denudation" which at the time possessed some little novelty.Since the infol'l11ation was published, it has to a certain extent been incorporated with geological literature.The subject was, however, far from being exhausted, nor is it likely to be so for many years yet to come.In the meantime, having accumulated additional facts, it will be part of the object of this address to arrange and analyze them, so as to check the original generalizations and further to illustrate the value in geological speculation of an accurate knowledge of the relati ve magnitude of the various objects and things dealt with.My former calculations dealt almost excltmively with the amount of mattei' annually removed in river water from the surface of England and Wales, and from some of the river basins of Europe.I now propose laying befol'e you calcula-tionA of a similar nature relating to some of the larger rivers of the two Americai'.rrhis done we shall be able to take a wider survey of the subject, and to ascertain how far the provisional generalizations to which previous investigations led are confirmed or otherwise by the greater expel'ience since gained. THE MISSISSIPPI.First then we will see what the Father of Waters, the Mississippi, te]ls us.I may observe that fol' a long while I found great difficulty in obtaining answers to my various questionings.Years elapsed and letters innumerable were written before I could alight upon any analy~es of the waters of the Mississippi, reliable 01' otherwise.At last through the kindness of Prof. J.
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Authors T. Mellard Reade
Journal american journal of science
Year 1885
DOI
10.2475/ajs.s3-29.172.290
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-29.172.290
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