Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... Scotland , an eighteen - inch bore of more than 600 feet in depth , carried down at great expense , and in a situation where the merest tyro in geology could have told the attempt was utterly hopeless . And thus it will happen again and ...
... Scotland , an eighteen - inch bore of more than 600 feet in depth , carried down at great expense , and in a situation where the merest tyro in geology could have told the attempt was utterly hopeless . And thus it will happen again and ...
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... metamorphic strata of the Alps , for example , by the colour of the system to which they belong ; but it is more than questionable how far the geology of Scotland is explicated , or the PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY . 61.
... metamorphic strata of the Alps , for example , by the colour of the system to which they belong ; but it is more than questionable how far the geology of Scotland is explicated , or the PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY . 61.
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David Page. far the geology of Scotland is explicated , or the science itself promoted , by delineating , as has been recently at- tempted , the crystalline schists and quartzites of the High- lands as lower Silurian . As a fact , the ...
David Page. far the geology of Scotland is explicated , or the science itself promoted , by delineating , as has been recently at- tempted , the crystalline schists and quartzites of the High- lands as lower Silurian . As a fact , the ...
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... Scotland would rank as uppermost Silu- rian ; while the uppermost yellow beds would go to form the base of the Carboniferous formation . In this way the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland would be reduced to mere subordinate formation , and ...
... Scotland would rank as uppermost Silu- rian ; while the uppermost yellow beds would go to form the base of the Carboniferous formation . In this way the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland would be reduced to mere subordinate formation , and ...
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... Scotland ; but the importance of the subject demands a broader recognition than this - demands , in fact , the establishment of inde- pendent professorships , devoted exclusively to the exposi- tion of world - history , as revealed by ...
... Scotland ; but the importance of the subject demands a broader recognition than this - demands , in fact , the establishment of inde- pendent professorships , devoted exclusively to the exposi- tion of world - history , as revealed by ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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