Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... thousand times by the forces now operating around us , we can trace a long and wonderful history of physical and vital mutation ; and it is to the perfection of this history in all that has reference to geographical aspect , operative ...
... thousand times by the forces now operating around us , we can trace a long and wonderful history of physical and vital mutation ; and it is to the perfection of this history in all that has reference to geographical aspect , operative ...
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... thousand or three thousand years ago ; or whether six centuries or sixteen centuries have elapsed since the deer were mired in the morass . Did Roman remains occur in the peat - bed , as they sometimes do , we would then have an ...
... thousand or three thousand years ago ; or whether six centuries or sixteen centuries have elapsed since the deer were mired in the morass . Did Roman remains occur in the peat - bed , as they sometimes do , we would then have an ...
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... thousand or six thousand years since they were entombed . In general , geology contents herself with a relative chro- nology , and does not condescend upon dates in years and centuries ; but though this is her practice , and wisely so ...
... thousand or six thousand years since they were entombed . In general , geology contents herself with a relative chro- nology , and does not condescend upon dates in years and centuries ; but though this is her practice , and wisely so ...
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... thousand years being added to the chronology of the whole human family ! Such are a few examples of the nature of geological evi- dence and geological methods , as applied to the more recent formations , and which we have given first ...
... thousand years being added to the chronology of the whole human family ! Such are a few examples of the nature of geological evi- dence and geological methods , as applied to the more recent formations , and which we have given first ...
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... thousand years . Where the phenomena were so vast , and the time so limited , the producing causes must have been correspondingly gigan- tic , and thus it was that the idea of cataclysms and convul- sions took possession of the ...
... thousand years . Where the phenomena were so vast , and the time so limited , the producing causes must have been correspondingly gigan- tic , and thus it was that the idea of cataclysms and convul- sions took possession of the ...
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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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