Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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David Page. CONTENTS . PAGE GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS , PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY , THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE , UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION , 11 19 32 48 PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY ,. 57 GEOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF ...
David Page. CONTENTS . PAGE GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS , PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY , THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE , UNIFORMITY AND PROGRESSION , 11 19 32 48 PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY ,. 57 GEOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF ...
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... practical or economic bearings less varied and valuable . Arranging as it does the rocky crust into stages and formations , it can point with precision to the sites of the various rocks , minerals , and metals , to their scarcity or ...
... practical or economic bearings less varied and valuable . Arranging as it does the rocky crust into stages and formations , it can point with precision to the sites of the various rocks , minerals , and metals , to their scarcity or ...
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... practical , are readily understood and easily appreciated . No knowledge can bear more directly on the industry of a country so long as the minerals and metals are indispens- able to mechanical achievement and progress ; no science of ...
... practical , are readily understood and easily appreciated . No knowledge can bear more directly on the industry of a country so long as the minerals and metals are indispens- able to mechanical achievement and progress ; no science of ...
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David Page. PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says one of the master - minds of Europe , " is the bane of science . " 66 Philosophy , " says another thinker , " is ... practical , and the man of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY,
David Page. PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says one of the master - minds of Europe , " is the bane of science . " 66 Philosophy , " says another thinker , " is ... practical , and the man of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY,
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... practical aspects . It may be studied from the purely intellectual side ; and what a wide field . for investigation , what a rich fund of truth and matter for speculation , it unfolds ! It may be viewed from the prac- tical ; and what ...
... practical aspects . It may be studied from the purely intellectual side ; and what a wide field . for investigation , what a rich fund of truth and matter for speculation , it unfolds ! It may be viewed from the prac- tical ; and what ...
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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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