Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY ,. 57 GEOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF GENERAL EDUCATION , 78 GEOLOGY AND MODERN THOUGHT , 105 • ROCKS - THEIR FORMATION AND METAMORPHOSES , 117 BY THE SEA - SHORE , 127 · LOCHLANDS , AND THE TALE THEY TELL , 137 ...
... ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY ,. 57 GEOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF GENERAL EDUCATION , 78 GEOLOGY AND MODERN THOUGHT , 105 • ROCKS - THEIR FORMATION AND METAMORPHOSES , 117 BY THE SEA - SHORE , 127 · LOCHLANDS , AND THE TALE THEY TELL , 137 ...
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... aspects , just as we get of human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of much ...
... aspects , just as we get of human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of much ...
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... aspect is obliterated , he can decipher with certainty no further , and must close his labours as an inductive geologist . The scope of geology as a science of observation and de- duction is restricted , therefore , to the stratified ...
... aspect is obliterated , he can decipher with certainty no further , and must close his labours as an inductive geologist . The scope of geology as a science of observation and de- duction is restricted , therefore , to the stratified ...
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... aspects . It may be studied from the purely intellectual side ; and what a wide field . for investigation , what a rich fund of truth and matter for speculation , it unfolds ! It may be viewed from the prac- tical ; and what valuable ...
... aspects . It may be studied from the purely intellectual side ; and what a wide field . for investigation , what a rich fund of truth and matter for speculation , it unfolds ! It may be viewed from the prac- tical ; and what valuable ...
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... aspects of his locality ; or settler pushing his fortunes in a new country , —all must alike draw on geology for aid , or grope in the dark by the old , unsafe , and expensive system , or rather non - system , of trial and error . Let ...
... aspects of his locality ; or settler pushing his fortunes in a new country , —all must alike draw on geology for aid , or grope in the dark by the old , unsafe , and expensive system , or rather non - system , of trial and error . Let ...
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists David Page (F.G.S.) Visualização integral - 1869 |
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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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