Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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... European languages , leads me to believe that the practical methods of instruction adopted in them have been found useful . They were followed in 1877 by my Class - Book of Physical Geography , in which , upon as far as possible the ...
... European languages , leads me to believe that the practical methods of instruction adopted in them have been found useful . They were followed in 1877 by my Class - Book of Physical Geography , in which , upon as far as possible the ...
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... Europe , for example , there are often several different styles . A student of architecture can detect these distinctions , and by their means can show that a cathedral has not been completed in one age ; that it may even have been ...
... Europe , for example , there are often several different styles . A student of architecture can detect these distinctions , and by their means can show that a cathedral has not been completed in one age ; that it may even have been ...
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... Europe and the settled parts of North America , the contrasts of temperature are not so marked , the same kind of waste takes place in a less striking manner . ( 2 ) Saturation and Desiccation . — Another cause of the decay of the ...
... Europe and the settled parts of North America , the contrasts of temperature are not so marked , the same kind of waste takes place in a less striking manner . ( 2 ) Saturation and Desiccation . — Another cause of the decay of the ...
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... is arrested by the growth of vegetation over their shifting surfaces . On many parts of the west coast of Europe , the dunes are marching into the interior at the rate of 20 feet in 20 CHAP . GEOLOGICAL WORK OF THE AIR.
... is arrested by the growth of vegetation over their shifting surfaces . On many parts of the west coast of Europe , the dunes are marching into the interior at the rate of 20 feet in 20 CHAP . GEOLOGICAL WORK OF THE AIR.
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... Europe , for instance , have been ascertained to convey about I part of dissolved mineral matter in every 5000 parts of water , and of this mineral matter about a half consists of carbonate of lime . It has been estimated that the Rhine ...
... Europe , for instance , have been ascertained to convey about I part of dissolved mineral matter in every 5000 parts of water , and of this mineral matter about a half consists of carbonate of lime . It has been estimated that the Rhine ...
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abundant accumulated acid Ammonites ancient Assistant Master beds BOOK bottom Brachiopods calcareous calcite Cambrian Cambridge carbonate of lime Carboniferous Chapter chiefly clay College containing corals Cretaceous crinoids crystalline crystals decay deposits detritus Devonian earth earth's crust Edited ELEMENTARY Eocene eruptive Europe evidence example extinct fauna Fcap feet fissures fossils genera GEOGRAPHY geological history glacier globe gradually granite gravel GREEK ground Illustrated Jurassic kinds known lakes land lava layers limestone living lower marine marls mass materials Mesozoic mineral Miocene mountains natural occur Old Red Sandstone organic remains original Palæozoic Paleozoic period Permian plants and animals Pliocene present preserved Prof Professor quartz Red Sandstone regions revised rivers rocks sand schists sediment sedimentary sedimentary rocks shales sheets shells siliceous Silurian soil solid sometimes species stone strata structure substance surface terrestrial Tertiary thick trace Triassic upper various vegetation volcanic
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