Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea - cliffs is swept by the tides and currents to seaward depths or to sheltered bays and recesses . And while all this and the ...
... lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea - cliffs is swept by the tides and currents to seaward depths or to sheltered bays and recesses . And while all this and the ...
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... lakes , in seas , and in estuaries , through and by the agency of water , and we therefore infer that all stratified rocks ... lake differ from those of the sea , and that those of the estuary , again , differ from both ; and so , when ...
... lakes , in seas , and in estuaries , through and by the agency of water , and we therefore infer that all stratified rocks ... lake differ from those of the sea , and that those of the estuary , again , differ from both ; and so , when ...
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... lakes , seas , and estuaries , and can infer with some degree of certainty as to the former distributions of sea and land , and the life by which they were peopled . In these , with their accom- panying volcanic products - their ...
... lakes , seas , and estuaries , and can infer with some degree of certainty as to the former distributions of sea and land , and the life by which they were peopled . In these , with their accom- panying volcanic products - their ...
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... lakes , in seas , or in estuaries — can tell the nature of the plants and animals imbedded within them - can indicate the climatic condi- tions under which these had lived and flourished - show the changes which these strata have ...
... lakes , in seas , or in estuaries — can tell the nature of the plants and animals imbedded within them - can indicate the climatic condi- tions under which these had lived and flourished - show the changes which these strata have ...
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... 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 knowledge , its ...
... 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 knowledge , its ...
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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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