Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... 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 .
... 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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... species and distribu- tion ; a few genera recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of existing or ...
... species and distribu- tion ; a few genera recently extinct . Placental mammals . Plants TERTIARY . CRETACEOUS . OOLITIC . TRIASSIC . PERMIAN . CARBONIFEROUS . STONE . SILURIAN . CAMBRIAN . LAURENTIAN . AND- { and animals of existing or ...
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... species , it must lie far , very far , beyond the range of our popularly - received chronology . And here one cannot help remarking , that to all these oscillations of sea and land , to all these changes of climate , and to all these ...
... species , it must lie far , very far , beyond the range of our popularly - received chronology . And here one cannot help remarking , that to all these oscillations of sea and land , to all these changes of climate , and to all these ...
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... species , upon which the earlier geologists delighted to descant with so much eloquence and marvel . So far as we can see , the great current of life is ever onwards , birth and death , reproduction and decay , ever accompanying each ...
... species , upon which the earlier geologists delighted to descant with so much eloquence and marvel . So far as we can see , the great current of life is ever onwards , birth and death , reproduction and decay , ever accompanying each ...
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... species are not now , as at the beginning of the century , regarded as constituting the science of geology ; nor is it the fashion to allow pala- 6 ontology to absorb the whole of our interest and PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY,
... species are not now , as at the beginning of the century , regarded as constituting the science of geology ; nor is it the fashion to allow pala- 6 ontology to absorb the whole of our interest and PRESENT ASPECTS OF GEOLOGICAL INQUIRY,
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists David Page (F.G.S.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1869 |
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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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