Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... become acquainted with its more prominent facts and bearings . This is all the Author aims at by the pub- lication of these " Chips and Chapters , " and he will be specially gratified should they fulfil the end in- tended , or aid in ...
... become acquainted with its more prominent facts and bearings . This is all the Author aims at by the pub- lication of these " Chips and Chapters , " and he will be specially gratified should they fulfil the end in- tended , or aid in ...
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... become doubly so when studied in connection with the fossil , -the whole marking a progress in time from the simple to the complex , from the general to the special , and from the merely sen- tient to the higher attributes of conscious ...
... become doubly so when studied in connection with the fossil , -the whole marking a progress in time from the simple to the complex , from the general to the special , and from the merely sen- tient to the higher attributes of conscious ...
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... become too dry for the peat - forming vegetation of the morass . It is true we have no chronology for those events ; nothing save sequence or a certain order of occurrences . We cannot say whether the canoes were sunk in the silt two ...
... become too dry for the peat - forming vegetation of the morass . It is true we have no chronology for those events ; nothing save sequence or a certain order of occurrences . We cannot say whether the canoes were sunk in the silt two ...
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... have read ; and when we have read , let us rest not till the newer knowledge they impart has become the com- mon property of man . UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION . In the earlier days of geology THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 47.
... have read ; and when we have read , let us rest not till the newer knowledge they impart has become the com- mon property of man . UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION . In the earlier days of geology THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 47.
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... become wild and irregular , and arise partly from external and partly from internal causes . Further , if a country consist of very old rocks , igneous and metamor- phosed , like our own Wales , the lake district of England , or the ...
... become wild and irregular , and arise partly from external and partly from internal causes . Further , if a country consist of very old rocks , igneous and metamor- phosed , like our own Wales , the lake district of England , or the ...
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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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