Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... continuity , and undeviating order , has the study of geology imparted , compared with the restricted notions of our forefathers ! what exalted con- ceptions of divine prescience and method compared with the fitful , temporary ...
... continuity , and undeviating order , has the study of geology imparted , compared with the restricted notions of our forefathers ! what exalted con- ceptions of divine prescience and method compared with the fitful , temporary ...
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... no science of recent times has spread so rapidly or influenced so broadly our ideas of time , change , continuity , and crea- tional progression . PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says 18 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... no science of recent times has spread so rapidly or influenced so broadly our ideas of time , change , continuity , and crea- tional progression . PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says 18 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... continuity , extension , and accessibility , which can be arrived at only through the generalisations of geology . For want of such knowledge much useless labour has been spent among river - drifts in search of gold and tin , where a ...
... continuity , extension , and accessibility , which can be arrived at only through the generalisations of geology . For want of such knowledge much useless labour has been spent among river - drifts in search of gold and tin , where a ...
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David Page. To the clearly indicated their extension and continuity . competent geologist a fossil twig or stem , a shell , coral , or fish - scale , is sufficient to indicate the presence and extent of a formation ; to the mere empiric ...
David Page. To the clearly indicated their extension and continuity . competent geologist a fossil twig or stem , a shell , coral , or fish - scale , is sufficient to indicate the presence and extent of a formation ; to the mere empiric ...
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... continuity of the opera- tions of nature . We must believe , for instance , that frosts disintegrated , winds blew , rains fell , rivers eroded , waves wasted , and currents transported , in time past precisely as they do now ; and that ...
... continuity of the opera- tions of nature . We must believe , for instance , that frosts disintegrated , winds blew , rains fell , rivers eroded , waves wasted , and currents transported , in time past precisely as they do now ; and that ...
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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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