Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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Side 12
... lands submerged and new ones upheaved , and the distribution of sea and land , at every change , more or less ... land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied by some change ...
... lands submerged and new ones upheaved , and the distribution of sea and land , at every change , more or less ... land , every elevation of terrestrial surface or deepening of sea - bed , is necessarily accompanied by some change ...
Side 13
... land at the time of their formation , and the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals existed . The aim of geology is therefore to read , through its rocks and fossils , the history of the earth's crust and the changes ...
... land at the time of their formation , and the conditions under which their imbedded plants and animals existed . The aim of geology is therefore to read , through its rocks and fossils , the history of the earth's crust and the changes ...
Side 14
... lands and waters , the kind of plants and animals by which it was successively peopled , and in the main of its geographical conditions and appointments . And by arranging the whole in chronological order ( from the deposits of ...
... lands and waters , the kind of plants and animals by which it was successively peopled , and in the main of its geographical conditions and appointments . And by arranging the whole in chronological order ( from the deposits of ...
Side 15
... land , and the life by which they were peopled . In these , with their accom- panying volcanic products - their fractures , upheavals , and depressions , he can trace the physical agencies of bygone periods , and compare them with the ...
... land , and the life by which they were peopled . In these , with their accom- panying volcanic products - their fractures , upheavals , and depressions , he can trace the physical agencies of bygone periods , and compare them with the ...
Side 20
... land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been wasted and reconstructed times without num- ber - now solved and sundered by water , now melted and reconstructed by fire ? What more ...
... land are ever changing places , and that not a particle of matter we now examine but has been wasted and reconstructed times without num- ber - now solved and sundered by water , now melted and reconstructed by fire ? What more ...
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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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