Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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... abundant of these carbonate of lime is the substance that forms lime- stone , and furnishes the mineral matter required for the hard parts of a large proportion of the lower animals . It is a matter of some interest to know that this ...
... abundant of these carbonate of lime is the substance that forms lime- stone , and furnishes the mineral matter required for the hard parts of a large proportion of the lower animals . It is a matter of some interest to know that this ...
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... abundant channels ( wadies ) now seldom or never occupied by a stream , but which were evidently at one time the beds of active torrents . Alluvium . But more universal testimony to the work of running water is to be found in the ...
... abundant channels ( wadies ) now seldom or never occupied by a stream , but which were evidently at one time the beds of active torrents . Alluvium . But more universal testimony to the work of running water is to be found in the ...
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... abundant . The Dead Sea , the Great Salt Lake of Utah , and many other salt lakes and inland seas furnish interesting evidence of the way in which they have gradually changed . In the upper terraces of the Great Salt Lake , 1000 feet or ...
... abundant . The Dead Sea , the Great Salt Lake of Utah , and many other salt lakes and inland seas furnish interesting evidence of the way in which they have gradually changed . In the upper terraces of the Great Salt Lake , 1000 feet or ...
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... record of their former existence . Chalybeate Springs . — A second but less abundant deposit. FIG . 21. - Travertine with impressions of leaves . FIG . 22. - Glacier with medial and lateral moraines. 58 CHAP . RECORDS LEFT BY SPRINGS.
... record of their former existence . Chalybeate Springs . — A second but less abundant deposit. FIG . 21. - Travertine with impressions of leaves . FIG . 22. - Glacier with medial and lateral moraines. 58 CHAP . RECORDS LEFT BY SPRINGS.
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Archibald Geikie. Chalybeate Springs . — A second but less abundant deposit from springs is found in regions where the rocks below ground contain decomposing sulphide of iron ( p . 137 ) . Water percolating through such rocks and ...
Archibald Geikie. Chalybeate Springs . — A second but less abundant deposit from springs is found in regions where the rocks below ground contain decomposing sulphide of iron ( p . 137 ) . Water percolating through such rocks and ...
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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 molten mountains natural occur Old Red Sandstone organic remains original Palæozoic 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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