Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... phenomena that are now taking place around us ? What more wonderful than to learn that , under the opera- tion of existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been ...
... phenomena that are now taking place around us ? What more wonderful than to learn that , under the opera- tion of existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been ...
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... phenomena stands unexcelled as a means of men- tal training and exercitation . At every step the most minute and ... phenomena would in a great measure be lost to others , if , indeed , the faulty description did not often . mislead them ...
... phenomena stands unexcelled as a means of men- tal training and exercitation . At every step the most minute and ... phenomena would in a great measure be lost to others , if , indeed , the faulty description did not often . mislead them ...
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... phenomena ; and he who goes earnestly and truthfully to work can scarcely have a wider and more varied field for their exercise and development . But , over and above this intellectual exercitation of a general nature , geology has ...
... phenomena ; and he who goes earnestly and truthfully to work can scarcely have a wider and more varied field for their exercise and development . But , over and above this intellectual exercitation of a general nature , geology has ...
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... their alternations , their un- broken extent , their superficial covering , the absence or pre- sence of dykes and faults , and other kindred phenomena— B * and without a knowledge of these , no man PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . 27.
... their alternations , their un- broken extent , their superficial covering , the absence or pre- sence of dykes and faults , and other kindred phenomena— B * and without a knowledge of these , no man PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . 27.
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... phenomena in the field of geology , and as the phenomena of the remote are infinite in comparison with those of the recent , the great bulk of our evidence must be secondary or circum- stantial . We have no eyewitness of the phenomena ...
... phenomena in the field of geology , and as the phenomena of the remote are infinite in comparison with those of the recent , the great bulk of our evidence must be secondary or circum- stantial . We have no eyewitness of the phenomena ...
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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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