Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... facts and bearings . This is all the Author aims at by the pub- lication of these " Chips and Chapters , " and he will be specially gratified should they fulfil the end in- tended , or aid in any way the young geologist to a clearer ...
... facts and bearings . This is all the Author aims at by the pub- lication of these " Chips and Chapters , " and he will be specially gratified should they fulfil the end in- tended , or aid in any way the young geologist to a clearer ...
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... facts of their formation but in these deepest rocks , where stratification is in a great measure effaced , and not a trace of plant - life or animal - life ; can be discovered , the geological record ceases , and 14 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... facts of their formation but in these deepest rocks , where stratification is in a great measure effaced , and not a trace of plant - life or animal - life ; can be discovered , the geological record ceases , and 14 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... facts and legitimate deductions of our science . It is of paramount importance , then , that in geology , as in other departments of science , the student should thoroughly understand the aim and scope of his subject , concentrating his ...
... facts and legitimate deductions of our science . It is of paramount importance , then , that in geology , as in other departments of science , the student should thoroughly understand the aim and scope of his subject , concentrating his ...
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... as imperative in their cravings as are those of his bodily requirements . It is apparently the oversight of this fact which makes the philosopher too often disregard the practical , and the man of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY,
... as imperative in their cravings as are those of his bodily requirements . It is apparently the oversight of this fact which makes the philosopher too often disregard the practical , and the man of PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF GEOLOGY,
Side 20
... fact registered in the rocky crust to the phenomena that are now taking place around us ? What more wonderful than to learn that , under the opera- tion of existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a ...
... fact registered in the rocky crust to the phenomena that are now taking place around us ? What more wonderful than to learn that , under the opera- tion of existing forces , sea and land are ever changing places , and that not a ...
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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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