Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... portion of the crust which gives evidence of the causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within ...
... portion of the crust which gives evidence of the causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within ...
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... may presume to ask , will be the influence of its teachings during the remaining portion of the century that lies before us ? THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE , THE increasing number of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . 31.
... may presume to ask , will be the influence of its teachings during the remaining portion of the century that lies before us ? THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE , THE increasing number of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . 31.
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... portion of the earth's crust is composed of stratified rocks , hence the unavoidable inference that what is now dry land has been under water , and , vice versa , that which is now under water was the dry land of preceding epochs . Nor ...
... portion of the earth's crust is composed of stratified rocks , hence the unavoidable inference that what is now dry land has been under water , and , vice versa , that which is now under water was the dry land of preceding epochs . Nor ...
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... portion to the perfection in which the animal has been pre- served . And more knowing the great law of co - relation , which adapts every portion of the animal framework to every other portion for the performance of certain functions ...
... portion to the perfection in which the animal has been pre- served . And more knowing the great law of co - relation , which adapts every portion of the animal framework to every other portion for the performance of certain functions ...
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... portions more meta- morphosed than others , more traces may yet be discovered . Time was , and that within the memory of most of us , when the lower Cambrians were considered as azoic ; but now that life has been carried downward into ...
... portions more meta- morphosed than others , more traces may yet be discovered . Time was , and that within the memory of most of us , when the lower Cambrians were considered as azoic ; but now that life has been carried downward into ...
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists David Page (F.G.S.) Visualização integral - 1869 |
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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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