Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE This book is a concise collection of various geological facts studied in the works of many reliable European research students who travelled in Armenia from 1830 up to the present time. It. was an essay required in partial fulfillment of my subject of major interest in the University. A complete bibliography has been appended for those who are interested in the details of the subject. The development of the natural resources of the country, for economic as well as for scientific purposes, is still in an embryonic condition. It is hoped that favorable political conditions, increased education, public zeal and its capital will, in time bring about the desirable improvements and make the natural wealth of the country available for its people. H. A. Khakajian. Columbia University, New York, N. Y. MORPHOLOGICAL REVIEW Armenia has not been for a long time past an independent political structure. But from a geographical point of view it represents an emphatic unity in that long chain of high plateaux, which runs in long succession from the Aegian Sea to the borders of China. As a link of this chain it has no sharp borders on the east and west, but grades toward the west quite gradually into Anatolian highland, and in the east to the Iranian plateau. On the other hand in the north and south the Armenian highland, whose average elevation is 1500-1800 meters, is steeply shut in by high border ranges, in which rugged snow-covered peaks of from 2,500-4,000 meters heights alternate with deep ravines. The contrast, when one comes down from the border ranges to the plateau, is most surprising between the characteristic Alpine peaks of the former and the open landscape of the latter, which displays in part limestone ridges with universally...
