Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections and Diagrams, and Figures of the Organic RemainsLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845 - 462 páginas |
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... trace its course , winding from N. E. to S. W. , until it gradu- ally vanishes in the distance . On both sides the country exhibits a sloping surface , which the count- less ramified spurs , branching off eastward and west- ward of the ...
... trace its course , winding from N. E. to S. W. , until it gradu- ally vanishes in the distance . On both sides the country exhibits a sloping surface , which the count- less ramified spurs , branching off eastward and west- ward of the ...
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... traces of a flow , similar to that of a nappe de basalte . The first variety presents very often the appearance of an intumescent paste , forming an extensive tract of New South Wales , where neither mica slate or gneiss is to be found ...
... traces of a flow , similar to that of a nappe de basalte . The first variety presents very often the appearance of an intumescent paste , forming an extensive tract of New South Wales , where neither mica slate or gneiss is to be found ...
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... traces of organic remains are very indis- tinct . The whole is crowned by a great development of pudding - stones and conglomerates , in slightly inclined beds . In some places the described strata are distinctly separated from those of ...
... traces of organic remains are very indis- tinct . The whole is crowned by a great development of pudding - stones and conglomerates , in slightly inclined beds . In some places the described strata are distinctly separated from those of ...
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... every member of the series , including the slaty fossiliferous , greatly disturbed . Next after this period we can trace the record of disturbances which dislocated another member of the series , namely SEDIMENTARY ROCKS . 121.
... every member of the series , including the slaty fossiliferous , greatly disturbed . Next after this period we can trace the record of disturbances which dislocated another member of the series , namely SEDIMENTARY ROCKS . 121.
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... traces are visible on Mount Tomah in New South Wales , and on Mount Wellington and Dry's Bluff in Van Diemen's Land . They show that all the members composing the series belonging to the second epoch were affected by similar ...
... traces are visible on Mount Tomah in New South Wales , and on Mount Wellington and Dry's Bluff in Van Diemen's Land . They show that all the members composing the series belonging to the second epoch were affected by similar ...
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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied ... Paul Edmund de Strzelecki Visualização de excertos - 1967 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acids appears argillaceous atmosphere Australian barometer basalt Bass's Straits belonging Ben Lomond breccia Capacity for moisture Cape Portland Captain Carbonate Chemical Character clay slate coal coast colonies colour compact conglomerate contains deposits Diemen's Land dividing range eastern elevation eurite evaporation farm feet felspar Flinders fossil fracture genus geological Gould granite greenstone greywacke Hill hornblende Horsf hot wind inches Island Jerusalem Basin Lake latitude Launceston lime limestone locality Lomond Macquarie masses mica slate miles Morris Mount Cameron Mount Hay Mount Kosciuszko Mount Wellington mountain nearly numerous observations Plains porphyry Port Jackson Port Philip Port Stephen Power of absorption present quartz rock resembles ridge river sandstone shell sienite siliceous siliceous slate slaty soil solar rays South Wales Sowerby species specific gravity specimens Spirifer spur Stenopora strata structure surface survey temperature thermometer tion traces trachyte Vale valley Van Diemen's Land variety vegetation
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