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... existing species and distribu- tion ; a few genera recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of ...
... existing species and distribu- tion ; a few genera recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of ...
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... . There can be no waste save from pre - existing rocks ; the earliest stratified formation in the earth's crust proclaims by its structure and arrangement that it is but the waste and debris of some 12 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... . There can be no waste save from pre - existing rocks ; the earliest stratified formation in the earth's crust proclaims by its structure and arrangement that it is but the waste and debris of some 12 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... existing conditions and opera- tions , the more perfect will be the interpretation . In other words , the more we know of the physical geography of the present day , of the forces that act and the results they produce , of the plants ...
... existing conditions and opera- tions , the more perfect will be the interpretation . In other words , the more we know of the physical geography of the present day , of the forces that act and the results they produce , of the plants ...
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... existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been wasted and reconstructed times without num- ber - now solved and sundered by water , now melted and reconstructed by ...
... existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been wasted and reconstructed times without num- ber - now solved and sundered by water , now melted and reconstructed by ...
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... existing ; and henceforth there can be no satisfactory consideration of plant - life or of animal - life that does not combine in one category the extinct with the existing . Attractive as may be the relations of the living economy ...
... existing ; and henceforth there can be no satisfactory consideration of plant - life or of animal - life that does not combine in one category the extinct with the existing . Attractive as may be the relations of the living economy ...
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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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