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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... and Art 117 IV . The Central Plateau and Natural Passes of Spain . A Visit to Granada and the Alhambra 132 V. The Valley of the Alpujarras - the last Resort of the Moors in Europe 145 ISLAND OF SARDINIA . I. The Coast , the Country.
... and Art 117 IV . The Central Plateau and Natural Passes of Spain . A Visit to Granada and the Alhambra 132 V. The Valley of the Alpujarras - the last Resort of the Moors in Europe 145 ISLAND OF SARDINIA . I. The Coast , the Country.
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... passes along a street ( and not a very wide one ) for a short distance and opens into the Loire . One is not a little astonished to find that this poor stream , which looks marvellously like a ditch , and is at best but a narrow canal ...
... passes along a street ( and not a very wide one ) for a short distance and opens into the Loire . One is not a little astonished to find that this poor stream , which looks marvellously like a ditch , and is at best but a narrow canal ...
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... passing into pisolitic iron ore . Two distinct beds are recognized , one of which is worked , but others probably exist . The one in work contains from five to six feet of a dark purple ore of good quality , consisting of a mixed oxide ...
... passing into pisolitic iron ore . Two distinct beds are recognized , one of which is worked , but others probably exist . The one in work contains from five to six feet of a dark purple ore of good quality , consisting of a mixed oxide ...
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... Passing on to the top of the hill above the upper level of Galés - a vertical rise of at least 200 to 300 feet - the lode is easily traced by a line of excavations made by the old people , and is clearly seen to bear at first towards ...
... Passing on to the top of the hill above the upper level of Galés - a vertical rise of at least 200 to 300 feet - the lode is easily traced by a line of excavations made by the old people , and is clearly seen to bear at first towards ...
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... passing over the dull and barren tracts occupied by gneiss and schists of various kinds . These are bleak , and if grand , are only so in form ; but when we reach the calcareous rocks , the character suddenly changes , and if not more ...
... passing over the dull and barren tracts occupied by gneiss and schists of various kinds . These are bleak , and if grand , are only so in form ; but when we reach the calcareous rocks , the character suddenly changes , and if not more ...
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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.