Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... second , the shallower sheet , where fresh- water shell - fish luxuriated in myriads , and succeeded each other generation after generation ; third , the peaty marsh , over which deer and oxen occasionally ventured and were mired ; and ...
... second , the shallower sheet , where fresh- water shell - fish luxuriated in myriads , and succeeded each other generation after generation ; third , the peaty marsh , over which deer and oxen occasionally ventured and were mired ; and ...
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... second place , some geologists are evidently carry- ing the idea of metamorphism beyond its legitimate limits , and would ascribe to its intenser manifestations the pro- duction of the granites and granitic compounds . Now no one who ...
... second place , some geologists are evidently carry- ing the idea of metamorphism beyond its legitimate limits , and would ascribe to its intenser manifestations the pro- duction of the granites and granitic compounds . Now no one who ...
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... second- ary coal - fields , and the effects of such discoveries , first , on many cherished theories respecting the conditions of the Carboniferous era ; and , second , on the chronological ar- rangement of our secondary formation . The ...
... second- ary coal - fields , and the effects of such discoveries , first , on many cherished theories respecting the conditions of the Carboniferous era ; and , second , on the chronological ar- rangement of our secondary formation . The ...
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... second- ary strata are altered , upheaved , and dislocated by igneous forces , the reliefs become wild and irregular , and arise partly from external and partly from internal causes . Further , if a country consist of very old rocks ...
... second- ary strata are altered , upheaved , and dislocated by igneous forces , the reliefs become wild and irregular , and arise partly from external and partly from internal causes . Further , if a country consist of very old rocks ...
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... second , if there is a law of per- petual progression , it must be still operative on living plants and animals , and we might arrive at its nature by a careful study of the variations which existing species undergo , and the proximate ...
... second , if there is a law of per- petual progression , it must be still operative on living plants and animals , and we might arrive at its nature by a careful study of the variations which existing species undergo , and the proximate ...
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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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