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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... occupy an irregular trough . The boulders include masses of granite more than a cubic yard in contents , and innumerable blocks of smaller size . The dip of the beds is extremely variable near the edge of the basin , commencing at an ...
... occupy an irregular trough . The boulders include masses of granite more than a cubic yard in contents , and innumerable blocks of smaller size . The dip of the beds is extremely variable near the edge of the basin , commencing at an ...
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... 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 coal reappears near Severac , a distance of about fifteen miles from Rodez , and is ...
... 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 coal reappears near Severac , a distance of about fifteen miles from Rodez , and is ...
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... a small village called Le Minier , close to a very remarkable lode which has evidently been opened and extensively worked . The houses of this village , now occupied by the poorest class of peasants , are 22 22 FRANCE .
... a small village called Le Minier , close to a very remarkable lode which has evidently been opened and extensively worked . The houses of this village , now occupied by the poorest class of peasants , are 22 22 FRANCE .
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... occupied by the poorest class of peasants , are built in a style of architecture not known in the district , and with an amount of decoration in carving and other detail indicative of much taste and some wealth . On the capital of a ...
... occupied by the poorest class of peasants , are built in a style of architecture not known in the district , and with an amount of decoration in carving and other detail indicative of much taste and some wealth . On the capital of a ...
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... occupy a smaller space , and while shrinking assumed a peculiar series of forms , strictly depending on the action of forces of a chemical nature , not unlike those which determine the construction and texture of crystals . This great ...
... occupy a smaller space , and while shrinking assumed a peculiar series of forms , strictly depending on the action of forces of a chemical nature , not unlike those which determine the construction and texture of crystals . This great ...
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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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abundant Algiers Alpujarras Amposta appears Aubin Aveyron bands basalt beauty beds Berja Cagliari chain character Cheliff Cherchel chiefly Chiffa coal coal-field coast coloured commenced considerable consists constructed copper crossing cultivated Délémont deposits distance district east Ebro elevation entering exist extending extremely feet France French gorge gossan granite ground hills houses inhabitants interesting interior island Kanawha kind labour land less limestone lode lofty Madrid Mediterranean miles mineral mines Moorish mountains Mouzäia natural nearly numerous obtained occasionally occupied Ohio oolite passing peculiar picturesque Pittsburg plains Porrentruy present principal Pyrenees pyrites quantity quartz range reached remarkable rich ridge rising river road rocks Rodez Roman Sahel sandstone Sardinia scenery schists seams seen shales side Sierra Nevada soon Spain Spanish stream surface Tarragona Tenez tertiary thickness tion town tract traveller valley various vegetation veins village walls whole
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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.