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... evidence should be sought to establish a conclusion , and what deductions may be drawn from particular facts . In short , they are to be regarded as sign - posts pointing out some of the high - ways and bye - ways of geological inquiry ...
... evidence should be sought to establish a conclusion , and what deductions may be drawn from particular facts . In short , they are to be regarded as sign - posts pointing out some of the high - ways and bye - ways of geological inquiry ...
Side 10
... evidence of successive deposits , and height- ening of the flood - plain . But it will seldom happen that he cannot in some way gain access to the geological formations below the surface , and even in a flat and featureless region ...
... evidence of successive deposits , and height- ening of the flood - plain . But it will seldom happen that he cannot in some way gain access to the geological formations below the surface , and even in a flat and featureless region ...
Side 13
... evidence of the former presence of the sea over the whole landscape , as if he heard there even now the murmur of the waves . But the observer's lot may be cast in a district where no fossils are to be found . There may be nothing in ...
... evidence of the former presence of the sea over the whole landscape , as if he heard there even now the murmur of the waves . But the observer's lot may be cast in a district where no fossils are to be found . There may be nothing in ...
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... evidence . where a less practised observer , though searching for information , would fail to find it . This difference of training tells greatly in all preliminary surveys , recon- naissances , or rapid traverses of a country . The ...
... evidence . where a less practised observer , though searching for information , would fail to find it . This difference of training tells greatly in all preliminary surveys , recon- naissances , or rapid traverses of a country . The ...
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... evidence as to former conditions of life . As the circumstances under which fossils have been entombed have greatly varied , the observer must be pre- pared for the most extraordinary differences in the appear- ance of even the same ...
... evidence as to former conditions of life . As the circumstances under which fossils have been entombed have greatly varied , the observer must be pre- pared for the most extraordinary differences in the appear- ance of even the same ...
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