Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... 244 RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMARINE FORESTS , 253 SPECIES - MAKING AND NOMENCLATURE , 265 SCENERY - ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES , 272 A FORGOTTEN CHAPTER , 283 INDEX , 299 RANGE OF TRAPPEAN ROCKS . RANGE OF GRANITIC ROCKS . 8 CONTENTS .
... 244 RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMARINE FORESTS , 253 SPECIES - MAKING AND NOMENCLATURE , 265 SCENERY - ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES , 272 A FORGOTTEN CHAPTER , 283 INDEX , 299 RANGE OF TRAPPEAN ROCKS . RANGE OF GRANITIC ROCKS . 8 CONTENTS .
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... cause , and vital progress , that the modern geologist directs his attention . All that relates to the primordial condition of the earth , and to its origin and evolution as a member of the solar system , belongs to cosmogony and ...
... cause , and vital progress , that the modern geologist directs his attention . All that relates to the primordial condition of the earth , and to its origin and evolution as a member of the solar system , belongs to cosmogony and ...
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... causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys , maps , and sections ...
... causes by which it was produced and the conditions accompanying its formation , the student has before him a task which , however arduous , is at least intelligible , and hopefully within his reach . In his surveys , maps , and sections ...
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... causes , its intellectual bearings are of the highest order ; while the influence of its deductions on botany and zoology , on the science of life in general , and on our conceptions of time and the operation of natural law , have been ...
... causes , its intellectual bearings are of the highest order ; while the influence of its deductions on botany and zoology , on the science of life in general , and on our conceptions of time and the operation of natural law , have been ...
Side 24
... cause immense toil has been spent on scattered 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 ...
... cause immense toil has been spent on scattered 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 ...
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Side 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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