Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . Oolite . Lias . Saliferous Marls . Muschelkalk ( ? ) . Upper New Red Sandstone , S Magnesian Limestone . Lower New Red Sandstone . Coal - Measures . Millstone Grit . Mountain Limestone ...
... SAND- STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . Oolite . Lias . Saliferous Marls . Muschelkalk ( ? ) . Upper New Red Sandstone , S Magnesian Limestone . Lower New Red Sandstone . Coal - Measures . Millstone Grit . Mountain Limestone ...
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... sands and gravels laid down along shore , and muds and marls in deeper water , and therefore conclude that all rocks of similar composition and structure have been formed in similar positions . We know that the plants and animals of the ...
... sands and gravels laid down along shore , and muds and marls in deeper water , and therefore conclude that all rocks of similar composition and structure have been formed in similar positions . We know that the plants and animals of the ...
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... sands , and gravels , which form the superficial accumulations , bear obvious evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived - and the sandstones ...
... sands , and gravels , which form the superficial accumulations , bear obvious evidence of the manner in which they have been aggregated , and of the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals lived - and the sandstones ...
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... sands and gravels , which a little skill could have traced up to the parent veins from which , in the course of ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are ...
... sands and gravels , which a little skill could have traced up to the parent veins from which , in the course of ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are ...
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... sand and gravel ; while the subjacent rocks are all rounded and polished , and grooved precisely like those of existing glacier regions . No known agency save land - ice produces such smoothings and groovings ; none but the glacier ...
... sand and gravel ; while the subjacent rocks are all rounded and polished , and grooved precisely like those of existing glacier regions . No known agency save land - ice produces such smoothings and groovings ; none but the glacier ...
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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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