Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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... soil 12 3. Passage of granite upwards into soil 4. Talus - slopes at the foot of a line of cliffs 5. Section of rain - wash or brick - earth 15 15 19 20 21 25 30 33333 35 6. Sand - dunes 7. Erosion of limestone by the solvent action of ...
... soil 12 3. Passage of granite upwards into soil 4. Talus - slopes at the foot of a line of cliffs 5. Section of rain - wash or brick - earth 15 15 19 20 21 25 30 33333 35 6. Sand - dunes 7. Erosion of limestone by the solvent action of ...
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... soil . In short , every shower of rain and gust of wind , if we could only watch them narrowly enough , would be found to have done something towards modifying the surface of the land . Along the sea - margin , too , how ceaseless is ...
... soil . In short , every shower of rain and gust of wind , if we could only watch them narrowly enough , would be found to have done something towards modifying the surface of the land . Along the sea - margin , too , how ceaseless is ...
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... soil is turned up which supports the plants that keep the land so green , there may be found below it sand and gravel , full of smooth well - rounded stones . .Such materials are to be seen in the course of formation where water keeps ...
... soil is turned up which supports the plants that keep the land so green , there may be found below it sand and gravel , full of smooth well - rounded stones . .Such materials are to be seen in the course of formation where water keeps ...
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... soil ? They have utterly vanished . If all their living descendants could suddenly be swept away , how could we tell that such plants and animals ever lived at all ? It must be confessed that the vast majority of them leave no trace ...
... soil ? They have utterly vanished . If all their living descendants could suddenly be swept away , how could we tell that such plants and animals ever lived at all ? It must be confessed that the vast majority of them leave no trace ...
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... soils and rocks with which geology deals to the records out of which the historian writes the chronicles of a nation . We might vary the simile by likening them to the materials employed in the construction of a great building . It is ...
... soils and rocks with which geology deals to the records out of which the historian writes the chronicles of a nation . We might vary the simile by likening them to the materials employed in the construction of a great building . It is ...
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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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