Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY ; ' ' HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS , GEOLOGY , AND GEOGRAPHY ; ' ' PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE ; ' GEOLOGY FOR GENERAL READERS ; ' ' FHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY ; ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS ...
... PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY ; ' ' HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS , GEOLOGY , AND GEOGRAPHY ; ' ' PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE ; ' GEOLOGY FOR GENERAL READERS ; ' ' FHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY ; ' ETC. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS ...
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... 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 by some change in climate and ...
... 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 by some change in climate and ...
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... physical geography of the present day , of the forces that act and the results they produce , of the plants and animals that live , and the mode in which they are entombed in the rocks , the better will we be enabled to infer from our ...
... physical geography of the present day , of the forces that act and the results they produce , of the plants and animals that live , and the mode in which they are entombed in the rocks , the better will we be enabled to infer from our ...
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... physical agencies of bygone 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 ...
... physical agencies of bygone 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 ...
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... physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were it not so , observation might be de- ceiving us at every ...
... physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were it not so , observation might be de- ceiving us at every ...
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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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