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... 244 RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMARINE FORESTS , 253 SPECIES - MAKING AND NOMENCLATURE , 265 SCENERY - ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES , 272 A FORGOTTEN CHAPTER , 283 INDEX , 299 RANGE OF TRAPPEAN ROCKS . RANGE OF GRANITIC ROCKS . 8 CONTENTS .
... 244 RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMARINE FORESTS , 253 SPECIES - MAKING AND NOMENCLATURE , 265 SCENERY - ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES , 272 A FORGOTTEN CHAPTER , 283 INDEX , 299 RANGE OF TRAPPEAN ROCKS . RANGE OF GRANITIC ROCKS . 8 CONTENTS .
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... scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its capabilities for improvement ; and without a knowledge of this connec- tion there can be no judicious laying out of estates , planting of woods , and ...
... scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its capabilities for improvement ; and without a knowledge of this connec- tion there can be no judicious laying out of estates , planting of woods , and ...
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... scenery or surface configuration ; whether it has been brought about by external agencies - such as frosts , rains , rivers , and other forces acting from without — or whether it is not mainly and primarily attributable to the volcano ...
... scenery or surface configuration ; whether it has been brought about by external agencies - such as frosts , rains , rivers , and other forces acting from without — or whether it is not mainly and primarily attributable to the volcano ...
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... scenery will depend mainly on external causes of waste , and on the comparative hardness of the strata ; while in a country like that of the Jura and the Alps , where the same second- ary strata are altered , upheaved , and dislocated ...
... scenery will depend mainly on external causes of waste , and on the comparative hardness of the strata ; while in a country like that of the Jura and the Alps , where the same second- ary strata are altered , upheaved , and dislocated ...
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... scenery to excite ; so also , to the same degree , has geology , while over and beyond , it has all the interest of the past to inspire and its mysteries to hallow . To the uninitiated a bed of sandstone or a cliff of basalt is but a 88 ...
... scenery to excite ; so also , to the same degree , has geology , while over and beyond , it has all the interest of the past to inspire and its mysteries to hallow . To the uninitiated a bed of sandstone or a cliff of basalt is but a 88 ...
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