Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... Recent . Pleistocene . Pliocene . Miocene . Eocene . CRETACEOUS . { Chalk . Greensand . Wealden . OOLITIC . Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN ...
... Recent . Pleistocene . Pliocene . Miocene . Eocene . CRETACEOUS . { Chalk . Greensand . Wealden . OOLITIC . Periods . CAINOZOIC . NEOZOIC CYCLE . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . OLD RED SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN ...
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... recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of existing or- ders ; a large proportion , however , of ...
... recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of existing or- ders ; a large proportion , however , of ...
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... recent and superficial to the oldest and deepest we can reach , is the prime aim of geology ; and the more thorough our knowledge of existing conditions and opera- tions , the more perfect will be the interpretation . In other words ...
... recent and superficial to the oldest and deepest we can reach , is the prime aim of geology ; and the more thorough our knowledge of existing conditions and opera- tions , the more perfect will be the interpretation . In other words ...
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... recent aspects , just as we get of human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of ...
... recent aspects , just as we get of human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of ...
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... progress ; no science of recent times has spread so rapidly or influenced so broadly our ideas of time , change , continuity , and crea- tional progression . PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says 18 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... progress ; no science of recent times has spread so rapidly or influenced so broadly our ideas of time , change , continuity , and crea- tional progression . PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY . " UTILITY , " says 18 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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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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