Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... ( sandstones , limestones , slates , & c . ) on which this name has been conferred , because of its large develop- ment in a region of western England , occupied in the time of the Romans by a people called by them Silures . In England ...
... ( sandstones , limestones , slates , & c . ) on which this name has been conferred , because of its large develop- ment in a region of western England , occupied in the time of the Romans by a people called by them Silures . In England ...
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... sandstone , extending in a sweep from Dumbarton to Stone- haven , and so on to Morayshire , Ross , and Caithness . This passes by the general name of the Old Red Sandstone , which was at first used as an appellative for the system ; but ...
... sandstone , extending in a sweep from Dumbarton to Stone- haven , and so on to Morayshire , Ross , and Caithness . This passes by the general name of the Old Red Sandstone , which was at first used as an appellative for the system ; but ...
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... sandstones , shales , and beds of coal , generally of the harder and less bituminous kind , ( anthracite , ) the whole being covered in some places by the millstone grit , a siliceous conglo- merate , composed of the detritus of the ...
... sandstones , shales , and beds of coal , generally of the harder and less bituminous kind , ( anthracite , ) the whole being covered in some places by the millstone grit , a siliceous conglo- merate , composed of the detritus of the ...
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... sandstones , shales , beds of limestone , and ironstone . Coal is altogether composed of the matter of a terrestrial vegetation , transmuted by putrefaction of a peculiar kind , beneath the surface of water and in the absence of air ...
... sandstones , shales , beds of limestone , and ironstone . Coal is altogether composed of the matter of a terrestrial vegetation , transmuted by putrefaction of a peculiar kind , beneath the surface of water and in the absence of air ...
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... sandstone , and shale , constituting the carboniferous group , were formed . It is favourable to this last view that marine fossils are rarely found in the body of the coal itself , though abundant in the shale layers above and below it ...
... sandstone , and shale , constituting the carboniferous group , were formed . It is favourable to this last view that marine fossils are rarely found in the body of the coal itself , though abundant in the shale layers above and below it ...
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admitted advance ages America amongst animals appear arrangement become believe birds body called cause character civilization cloth common connected considerable considered constitution course creation DISEASES distinct early earth Edition evidence example existence external fact faculties feet fishes formation fossils genera give habits higher human hypothesis idea Illustrations instances kind known land language less living lower manner matter means Medical mind naturalists nature necessary never observed operation organic origin particular pass period phenomena plants portion possessed practical present principle produced Professor progress reason regard regions relation remains remarkable reptiles respect result rocks says Second seems seen shells Silurian similar species structure succession superior supposed surface things tion trace tribes true variety various vegetable whole
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Página lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Página 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...