Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . Oolite . Lias . Saliferous Marls . Muschelkalk ( ? ) . Upper New Red Sandstone , S Magnesian Limestone ...
... Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . Oolite . Lias . Saliferous Marls . Muschelkalk ( ? ) . Upper New Red Sandstone , S Magnesian Limestone ...
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... periods , and compare them with the present . But in the old crystalline rocks , where the record of life and geogra- phical aspect is obliterated , he can decipher with certainty no further , and must close his labours as an inductive ...
... periods , and compare them with the present . But in the old crystalline rocks , where the record of life and geogra- phical aspect is obliterated , he can decipher with certainty no further , and must close his labours as an inductive ...
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... period and change leaves its own record of waste and reconstruc- tion in the crust , together with some memorials of the plant - life and animal - life that peopled the surface during its continuance . Geology is thus the history of our ...
... period and change leaves its own record of waste and reconstruc- tion in the crust , together with some memorials of the plant - life and animal - life that peopled the surface during its continuance . Geology is thus the history of our ...
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... period of our sentient existence ? All knowledge of nature is good , and there is no science , physical or natural , which is not in- vested with its own special value ; but there is none , per- haps , which brings the mind in more ...
... period of our sentient existence ? All knowledge of nature is good , and there is no science , physical or natural , which is not in- vested with its own special value ; but there is none , per- haps , which brings the mind in more ...
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... periods ; that there has been a gradual ascent in time from lower to higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for ...
... periods ; that there has been a gradual ascent in time from lower to higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for ...
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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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