Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE ; ' GEOLOGY FOR GENERAL READERS ; ' ' FHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY ; ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXIX IN The Right of Translation is reserved + THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ...
... PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE ; ' GEOLOGY FOR GENERAL READERS ; ' ' FHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY ; ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXIX IN The Right of Translation is reserved + THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ...
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... past similar to those that are now taking place around us . 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 ...
... past similar to those that are now taking place around us . 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 ...
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... past conditions of the globe - the distribution of its lands and waters , the kind of plants and animals by which it was successively peopled , and in the main of its geographical conditions and appointments . And by arranging the whole ...
... past conditions of the globe - the distribution of its lands and waters , the kind of plants and animals by which it was successively peopled , and in the main of its geographical conditions and appointments . And by arranging the whole ...
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... by its own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
... by its own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
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David Page. us . has undergone in time past by examining the rock - forma- tions of the crust ; or , by reversing the order , we try from the earliest traces of change in the rocky crust to read the history of the earth onwards and ...
David Page. us . has undergone in time past by examining the rock - forma- tions of the crust ; or , by reversing the order , we try from the earliest traces of change in the rocky crust to read the history of the earth onwards 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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