Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... hills and high grounds by the frosts and rains and runnels is carried down by the rivers and deposited in the valleys , lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea ...
... hills and high grounds by the frosts and rains and runnels is carried down by the rivers and deposited in the valleys , lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea ...
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... hills , excavating canals , docks , and harbours , boring for water , or arranging for water - sup- plies , no science can be of more direct importance than geology . It is true he may , in each special case , appeal to the skilled ...
... hills , excavating canals , docks , and harbours , boring for water , or arranging for water - sup- plies , no science can be of more direct importance than geology . It is true he may , in each special case , appeal to the skilled ...
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... hills , its crags and precipices , its glens and ravines , its sea - cliffs , bays , and promontories , all taking their aspects and hues from their structure , the manner in which they yield to the weather , and other phy- sical ...
... hills , its crags and precipices , its glens and ravines , its sea - cliffs , bays , and promontories , all taking their aspects and hues from their structure , the manner in which they yield to the weather , and other phy- sical ...
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... hill and valley , lake and river , crag and gorge , beetling sea - cliff , and sandy shore . Nor do its intellectual attractions as a main branch of natural science constitute its sole attractions . Its bearings on other departments of ...
... hill and valley , lake and river , crag and gorge , beetling sea - cliff , and sandy shore . Nor do its intellectual attractions as a main branch of natural science constitute its sole attractions . Its bearings on other departments of ...
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... hills and submerges former islands . In this operation rocks of various 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 ...
... hills and submerges former islands . In this operation rocks of various 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 ...
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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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