Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... mineral borer of great ingenuity and mechanical skill having been negotiated with by two noble proprietors to make trials on their estates in the county of Banff and the northern district of Aberdeenshire !! at least to be something ...
... mineral borer of great ingenuity and mechanical skill having been negotiated with by two noble proprietors to make trials on their estates in the county of Banff and the northern district of Aberdeenshire !! at least to be something ...
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... mineral resources ; and though the agricultur- ist may obtain this information through the mineral sur- veyor or geologist , yet some acquaintance with the science must enable him the better to appreciate these reports , and to shape ...
... mineral resources ; and though the agricultur- ist may obtain this information through the mineral sur- veyor or geologist , yet some acquaintance with the science must enable him the better to appreciate these reports , and to shape ...
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... mineral fields is not a gain alike to science and to industry . To the landscape gardener and artist a knowledge of geo- logy and its relations to scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its ...
... mineral fields is not a gain alike to science and to industry . To the landscape gardener and artist a knowledge of geo- logy and its relations to scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its ...
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... mineral and chemical action , scattered in fragments , and difficult to be deciphered ; but there they are , awaiting the C touch of competent skill to restore their forms and deter- THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 43.
... mineral and chemical action , scattered in fragments , and difficult to be deciphered ; but there they are , awaiting the C touch of competent skill to restore their forms and deter- THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 43.
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... mineral products that could only result from the presence of organic matter ; and thus we are clearly debarred from doing more than merely placing provisionally the Cambrian and the Laurentian rocks as our oldest stratified and ...
... mineral products that could only result from the presence of organic matter ; and thus we are clearly debarred from doing more than merely placing provisionally the Cambrian and the Laurentian rocks as our oldest stratified and ...
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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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