Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are several sets of veins of different ages , different contents , and different directions , there can be no ...
... ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are several sets of veins of different ages , different contents , and different directions , there can be no ...
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... ages , that this earth is of unknown antiquity ; that its existing seas and lands were not the seas and lands of former epochs , any more than they will be the continents and oceans of the future ; that existing plants and animals are ...
... ages , that this earth is of unknown antiquity ; that its existing seas and lands were not the seas and lands of former epochs , any more than they will be the continents and oceans of the future ; that existing plants and animals are ...
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... ages ; and we are constrained to refer these remains to a high but indefinite antiquity . And , by a similar process , when traces of man and of his works occur in the same for- mations with those of the extinct mammoth and rhinoceros ...
... ages ; and we are constrained to refer these remains to a high but indefinite antiquity . And , by a similar process , when traces of man and of his works occur in the same for- mations with those of the extinct mammoth and rhinoceros ...
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... ages , the geo- logist has occasionally to draw his inferences negatively- or , in other words , to conclude that certain things did not exist , or certain events did not happen , because all evidence to the contrary is wanting . Such a ...
... ages , the geo- logist has occasionally to draw his inferences negatively- or , in other words , to conclude that certain things did not exist , or certain events did not happen , because all evidence to the contrary is wanting . Such a ...
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... age of the earth , which required all the appearance in the rocky crust and all its external features to have been pro- duced within the brief space of a few thousand years . Where the phenomena were so vast , and the time so limited ...
... age of the earth , which required all the appearance in the rocky crust and all its external features to have been pro- duced within the brief space of a few thousand years . Where the phenomena were so vast , and the time so limited ...
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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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