Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist and Mining EngineerJ. Van Voorst, 1854 - 323 páginas |
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... consists of a singular belt of carboniferous rocks ranging nearly east and west , and reaching from the terminus of the Brest and Nantes Canal , where it enters the Erdre a few miles north of Nantes , to Chalonne , not far from Angers ...
... consists of a singular belt of carboniferous rocks ranging nearly east and west , and reaching from the terminus of the Brest and Nantes Canal , where it enters the Erdre a few miles north of Nantes , to Chalonne , not far from Angers ...
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... consists of low undulations , ranging nearly east and west . The coal itself is worked on two of these , between which is a swampy bit hardly deserving the name of a valley . A good many high chimneys belonging to little steam - engines ...
... consists of low undulations , ranging nearly east and west . The coal itself is worked on two of these , between which is a swampy bit hardly deserving the name of a valley . A good many high chimneys belonging to little steam - engines ...
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... consisting of rocks , trees , houses , châteaux , little chapels , round towers , and ruined sheds , that can be imagined . The river here winds a good deal , and the character of the scenery is in all respects that of enclosed water ...
... consisting of rocks , trees , houses , châteaux , little chapels , round towers , and ruined sheds , that can be imagined . The river here winds a good deal , and the character of the scenery is in all respects that of enclosed water ...
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... consists of a series of beds of coal dipping heavily to the north , reposing on the schists and gneiss or granite of the Aveyron district on the south , and covered up almost immediately , first COAL AND IRON OF AVEYRON . 15 Group of ...
... consists of a series of beds of coal dipping heavily to the north , reposing on the schists and gneiss or granite of the Aveyron district on the south , and covered up almost immediately , first COAL AND IRON OF AVEYRON . 15 Group of ...
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... consists of a series of hills of some elevation flanking the crystalline rocks , and occupy- ing part of the narrow space between them and the river Aveyron . The length of the crop is about six miles from Rodez to Laissac , but the ...
... consists of a series of hills of some elevation flanking the crystalline rocks , and occupy- ing part of the narrow space between them and the river Aveyron . The length of the crop is about six miles from Rodez to Laissac , but the ...
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Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist ... David Thomas Ansted Visualização integral - 1854 |
Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist ... David Thomas Ansted Visualização integral - 1854 |
Scenery, Science and Art: Being Extracts from the Note-book of a Geologist ... David Thomas Ansted Visualização integral - 1854 |
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Página 292 - The ore in both cases is an auriferous pyrites, occurring in a whitish or white schist. The vein is worked at a depth of 90 feet or thereabouts, but has been proved to 160, and remains uniform. It yields about 6 dwts.