Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... deposited in the valleys , lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea - cliffs is swept by the tides and currents to seaward depths or to sheltered bays and recesses ...
... deposited in the valleys , lakes , and estuaries , or borne out to the ocean ; and what is washed by the waves from the headlands and sea - cliffs is swept by the tides and currents to seaward depths or to sheltered bays and recesses ...
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... deposited in lakes , in seas , or in estuaries — can tell the nature of the plants and animals imbedded within them - can indicate the climatic condi- tions under which these had lived and flourished - show the changes which these ...
... deposited in lakes , in seas , or in estuaries — can tell the nature of the plants and animals imbedded within them - can indicate the climatic condi- tions under which these had lived and flourished - show the changes which these ...
Side 41
... deposited and shells lived , a climate similar to that of Greenland prevailed over British latitudes . If facts be of any value , such are the facts ; if knowledge of existing nature be of any importance to reason , such are the ...
... deposited and shells lived , a climate similar to that of Greenland prevailed over British latitudes . If facts be of any value , such are the facts ; if knowledge of existing nature be of any importance to reason , such are the ...
Side 42
... deposited . As the greater portion of the earth's crust is composed of stratified rocks , hence the unavoidable inference that what is now dry land has been under water , and , vice versa , that which is now under water was the dry land ...
... deposited . As the greater portion of the earth's crust is composed of stratified rocks , hence the unavoidable inference that what is now dry land has been under water , and , vice versa , that which is now under water was the dry land ...
Side 43
David Page. urchins , or corals , are set down as having been deposited in the sea , because all experience teaches that such organ- isms are never found living in any other than sea - water , just as certain shells ( lymnea , paludina ...
David Page. urchins , or corals , are set down as having been deposited in the sea , because all experience teaches that such organ- isms are never found living in any other than sea - water , just as certain shells ( lymnea , paludina ...
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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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