Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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David Page. fauna ) of any set of strata , we can determine whether these strata are of lacustrine , of estuarine , or of marine formation . Again , we see how unstratified rock - masses are produced by volcanic eruption , and how the ...
David Page. fauna ) of any set of strata , we can determine whether these strata are of lacustrine , of estuarine , or of marine formation . Again , we see how unstratified rock - masses are produced by volcanic eruption , and how the ...
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... determined by the science of geology . As with tunnelling , excavating , and boring , so with other operations that come under the direction of the civil engi- neer ; and yet not one in ten of those so designated has anything like a ...
... determined by the science of geology . As with tunnelling , excavating , and boring , so with other operations that come under the direction of the civil engi- neer ; and yet not one in ten of those so designated has anything like a ...
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... determining ; but , judg- ing from all the combined circumstances of climatic change and extinction of species , it must lie far , very far , beyond the range of our popularly - received chronology . And here one cannot help remarking ...
... determining ; but , judg- ing from all the combined circumstances of climatic change and extinction of species , it must lie far , very far , beyond the range of our popularly - received chronology . And here one cannot help remarking ...
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... determine what was formerly lake , or sea , or estuary ; for the fossils imbedded in the strata- fresh water for the lake , marine for the sea , and interme- diate for the estuary - deliver a testimony as convincing as if we had lived ...
... determine what was formerly lake , or sea , or estuary ; for the fossils imbedded in the strata- fresh water for the lake , marine for the sea , and interme- diate for the estuary - deliver a testimony as convincing as if we had lived ...
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... determines . Its facts and evidences are scattered everywhere around and beneath us ; they are graven in indelible char- acters on the rock - formations of the crust : let us rest not till we have read ; and when we have read , let us ...
... determines . Its facts and evidences are scattered everywhere around and beneath us ; they are graven in indelible char- acters on the rock - formations of the crust : let us rest not till we have read ; and when we have read , let us ...
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