Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... less affected . Nor is it to mere physical and mechanical changes alone that the earth is subjected ; every new distribution of sea and land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied ...
... less affected . Nor is it to mere physical and mechanical changes alone that the earth is subjected ; every new distribution of sea and land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied ...
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... less evident and of much more difficult interpretation than those of recent date , and that this difficulty goes on increasing as we descend in the earth's crust until we reach a stage when everything becomes obscure , and all the rocks ...
... less evident and of much more difficult interpretation than those of recent date , and that this difficulty goes on increasing as we descend in the earth's crust until we reach a stage when everything becomes obscure , and all the rocks ...
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... less varied and valuable . Arranging as it does the rocky crust into stages and formations , it can point with precision to the sites of the various rocks , minerals , and metals , to their scarcity or abundance , and thus confer on the ...
... less varied and valuable . Arranging as it does the rocky crust into stages and formations , it can point with precision to the sites of the various rocks , minerals , and metals , to their scarcity or abundance , and thus confer on the ...
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... less variety and contrast this power discovers in nature , where to the casual observer there appears nothing save same- ness and monotony ! Besides this discipline of observation , there is also necessary the tact to describe , for ...
... less variety and contrast this power discovers in nature , where to the casual observer there appears nothing save same- ness and monotony ! Besides this discipline of observation , there is also necessary the tact to describe , for ...
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David Page. less necessary than that of the perceptive . Knowledge of causation , sifting of evidence , balancing of probabilities , and power of generalisation , are never more needed than in dealing with geological phenomena ; and he ...
David Page. less necessary than that of the perceptive . Knowledge of causation , sifting of evidence , balancing of probabilities , and power of generalisation , are never more needed than in dealing with geological phenomena ; and he ...
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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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