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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... miles north of Nantes , to Chalonne , not far from Angers on the Loire , a total distance of about sixty - five miles . This belt contains two groups of coal - beds , both which are nearly vertical , but they have a uniform south dip as ...
... miles north of Nantes , to Chalonne , not far from Angers on the Loire , a total distance of about sixty - five miles . This belt contains two groups of coal - beds , both which are nearly vertical , but they have a uniform south dip as ...
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... miles the scenery was pretty but by no means striking , there being a large sheet of shallow water with low hills rising in the distance , and small villages or large houses dotted about on the banks . After about a third of the way had ...
... miles the scenery was pretty but by no means striking , there being a large sheet of shallow water with low hills rising in the distance , and small villages or large houses dotted about on the banks . After about a third of the way had ...
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... miles from their embouchure . The district is thus geographically isolated , and belongs in drainage to the Atlantic system , the courses of the Saône and Rhone marking the direction , and almost the actual line of watershed . The ...
... miles from their embouchure . The district is thus geographically isolated , and belongs in drainage to the Atlantic system , the courses of the Saône and Rhone marking the direction , and almost the actual line of watershed . The ...
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... miles in extreme length , with a breadth varying from one to five miles . The Aubin concession alone includes 1800 acres or thereabouts , and that of Decazeville is not less extensive . There are eight or ten distinct seams of workable ...
... miles in extreme length , with a breadth varying from one to five miles . The Aubin concession alone includes 1800 acres or thereabouts , and that of Decazeville is not less extensive . There are eight or ten distinct seams of workable ...
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... miles from Rodez , and is supposed to be continuous throughout . I saw no distinct proof of this , although it is by ... mile , and hitherto there has been nothing absolutely proved beyond that limit . The beds incline at angles varying ...
... miles from Rodez , and is supposed to be continuous throughout . I saw no distinct proof of this , although it is by ... mile , and hitherto there has been nothing absolutely proved beyond that limit . The beds incline at angles varying ...
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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.