Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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David Page. evolved along the Mediterranean - then we would have been compelled to regard them as pre - historic , and to have dated them prior to the oldest of these nationalities . Than this there is no other course left for the ...
David Page. evolved along the Mediterranean - then we would have been compelled to regard them as pre - historic , and to have dated them prior to the oldest of these nationalities . Than this there is no other course left for the ...
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... regard all stratified rocks as of sedimentary origin , and as having been derived by meteoric and aqueous action from pre- existing lands . They perceive that muds , sands , gravels , calcareous marls , and vegetable debris , are ...
... regard all stratified rocks as of sedimentary origin , and as having been derived by meteoric and aqueous action from pre- existing lands . They perceive that muds , sands , gravels , calcareous marls , and vegetable debris , are ...
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... regard them as cataclysmal unless in the most limited and local sense , and in the same light he is led to consider all the volcanic phenomena of former ages . As the mani- festations of vulcanism are restricted to certain areas in the ...
... regard them as cataclysmal unless in the most limited and local sense , and in the same light he is led to consider all the volcanic phenomena of former ages . As the mani- festations of vulcanism are restricted to certain areas in the ...
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... regards these in the ordinary course of nature , so he is prepared to regard the relics of former life , whether occurring singly or in masses by thousands . As the uniformitarian sees no- thing like general destruction of plants and ...
... regards these in the ordinary course of nature , so he is prepared to regard the relics of former life , whether occurring singly or in masses by thousands . As the uniformitarian sees no- thing like general destruction of plants and ...
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... regard them as the earliest and oldest of our stratified system ? Even in these Laurentian strata , metamorphosed and crys- talline as they are , Sir William Logan and his assistants , and more recently Principal Dawson , have detected ...
... regard them as the earliest and oldest of our stratified system ? Even in these Laurentian strata , metamorphosed and crys- talline as they are , Sir William Logan and his assistants , and more recently Principal Dawson , have detected ...
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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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