Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... EVIDENCE , UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION , 11 19 32 48 PRESENT 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 ...
... EVIDENCE , UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION , 11 19 32 48 PRESENT 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 ...
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... evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived - and the sandstones , shales , ironstones , coals , and limestones of the older strata , with their ...
... evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived - and the sandstones , shales , ironstones , coals , and limestones of the older strata , with their ...
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... evidence of the causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys ...
... evidence of the causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys ...
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... evidence of the conditions under which they were formed , then the task of inductive geology ceases , and the primordial state of our globe is handed over to the physicist and astronomer . The aim and scope of geology being clear - and ...
... evidence of the conditions under which they were formed , then the task of inductive geology ceases , and the primordial state of our globe is handed over to the physicist and astronomer . The aim and scope of geology being clear - and ...
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... evidence , balancing of probabilities , and power of generalisation , are never more needed than in dealing with geological phenomena ; and he who goes earnestly and truthfully to work can scarcely have a wider and more varied field for ...
... evidence , balancing of probabilities , and power of generalisation , are never more needed than in dealing with geological phenomena ; and he who goes earnestly and truthfully to work can scarcely have a wider and more varied field 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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