Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... producing new irregularities of surface by earthquake convulsion . In this way former rocks are worn away and new ones constructed , old lands submerged and new ones upheaved , and the distribution of sea and land , at every change ...
... producing new irregularities of surface by earthquake convulsion . In this way former rocks are worn away and new ones constructed , old lands submerged and new ones upheaved , and the distribution of sea and land , at every change ...
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... produce , so the older rocks contain the history of the manner in which they were formed and of the conditions under ... produced in a similar way . We see sands and gravels laid down along shore , and muds and marls in deeper water ...
... produce , so the older rocks contain the history of the manner in which they were formed and of the conditions under ... produced in a similar way . We see sands and gravels laid down along shore , and muds and marls in deeper water ...
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... produced by volcanic eruption , and how the earth's crust is rent and fissured by earthquake convulsions , and we rightly infer that all unstratified rocks are of igneous origin , and that the fractures and faults among the older strata ...
... produced by volcanic eruption , and how the earth's crust is rent and fissured by earthquake convulsions , and we rightly infer that all unstratified rocks are of igneous origin , and that the fractures and faults among the older strata ...
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... produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys , maps , and sections he can separate the ...
... produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys , maps , and sections he can separate the ...
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... producing causes , its intellectual bearings are of the highest order ; while the influence of its deductions on botany and zoology , on the science of life in general , and on our conceptions of time and the operation of natural law ...
... producing causes , its intellectual bearings are of the highest order ; while the influence of its deductions on botany and zoology , on the science of life in general , and on our conceptions of time and the operation of natural law ...
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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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