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Definition of Hogbacks
1. hogback [n] - See also: hogback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hogbacks
Literary usage of Hogbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1907)
"The Lowther hogbacks. By WG COLLINGWOOD, FSA Partly read ... existence of three
hogbacks in Lowther Church- -L yard has long been matter of common knowledge ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The index forms which enable one to discriminate between the two are the hogbacks
which encircle the dome mountain. When these are present the field ..."
3. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1878)
"Of this, the Colorado shales occupy over 1000 square miles in the space between
the cliffs and the hogbacks on Grand River. They are so eroded and covered ..."
4. The Scientific Study of Scenery by John Edward Marr (1900)
"The monoclinal fold gives rise to steep, curved slopes overlooking gently sloping
surfaces, as typically shown in the "hogbacks" of the western territories ..."
5. The Geologist's Traveling Hand-book: An American Geological Railway Guide by James Macfarlane (1879)
"West and northwest, are the hogbacks of Mesozoic rocks, standing about vertical—the
result of the granitic upheaval. The Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie and ..."
6. Geology of Colorado Ore Deposits by Arthur Lakes (1888)
"The "hogbacks" along the foothills consisting of upheaved limestones, clays, ...
The mineral deposits of Boulder are the nearest to the "hogbacks" and ..."
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