Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... character in the frozen sands of Siberia , implies conditions still more rigorous and boreal . Now , as changes in climate are brought about by the slow oscillations of sea and land , such extensive changes as those we have referred to ...
... character in the frozen sands of Siberia , implies conditions still more rigorous and boreal . Now , as changes in climate are brought about by the slow oscillations of sea and land , such extensive changes as those we have referred to ...
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... character and consistency are ejected by the volcano , fissures and inequalities of surface produced by the earthquake . By a study of these volcanic rocks , their composition , the manner in which they break through , dis- place , and ...
... character and consistency are ejected by the volcano , fissures and inequalities of surface produced by the earthquake . By a study of these volcanic rocks , their composition , the manner in which they break through , dis- place , and ...
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... character ? Such is the doctrine of uniformity , and such is the belief that has given consistency to the whole teachings of modern geology . Not only is it more consistent and philosophical in itself , but it better accords with the ...
... character ? Such is the doctrine of uniformity , and such is the belief that has given consistency to the whole teachings of modern geology . Not only is it more consistent and philosophical in itself , but it better accords with the ...
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... character , but simply implying that as yet they remain apart and unresolved into any chronological system or series . Metamorphism . - The consideration of these older sedi- ments brings us necessarily in contact with the subject of ...
... character , but simply implying that as yet they remain apart and unresolved into any chronological system or series . Metamorphism . - The consideration of these older sedi- ments brings us necessarily in contact with the subject of ...
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... character of some granites , that these granites , like the schists with which they are associated , have undergone a metamorphism of their own , and that they were originally truly igneous like the basalts and greenstones ? Place , for ...
... character of some granites , that these granites , like the schists with which they are associated , have undergone a metamorphism of their own , and that they were originally truly igneous like the basalts and greenstones ? Place , for ...
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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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