Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's PortfolioHurst, 1859 - 423 sider |
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INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCI | 11 |
LECTURE FIRST | 37 |
Problem first propounded to the Author in a QuarryThe Quarrys Two | 84 |
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Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical ... Hugh Miller,Harriet Myrtle Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1859 |
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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth diameters earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments furnished ganoid geological geologist glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred inches island land least Lias lignite Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs moraine Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present quarry remains reptiles resemble ridge rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves