Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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... leaves 22. Glaciers and moraines 23. Perched blocks scattered over ice - worn surface of rock 24. Stone smoothed and striated by glacier - ice . 35 37 37 38 43 44 45 46 51 54 55 58 63 64 66 FIG . 25. Ice - striation on the floor and.
... leaves 22. Glaciers and moraines 23. Perched blocks scattered over ice - worn surface of rock 24. Stone smoothed and striated by glacier - ice . 35 37 37 38 43 44 45 46 51 54 55 58 63 64 66 FIG . 25. Ice - striation on the floor and.
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... surface 83. Cast of a sun - cracked surface preserved in the next succeeding layer of sediment . 84. Rain - prints on fine mud 85. Vertical trees ( Sigillaria ) in sandstone , Swansea ( Logan ) 86. Hills formed out of horizontal ...
... surface 83. Cast of a sun - cracked surface preserved in the next succeeding layer of sediment . 84. Rain - prints on fine mud 85. Vertical trees ( Sigillaria ) in sandstone , Swansea ( Logan ) 86. Hills formed out of horizontal ...
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... surface of the land . Along the sea - margin , too , how ceaseless is the progress of change ! In most places , the waves are cutting away the land , sometimes even at so fast a rate as two or three feet in a year . Here and there , on ...
... surface of the land . Along the sea - margin , too , how ceaseless is the progress of change ! In most places , the waves are cutting away the land , sometimes even at so fast a rate as two or three feet in a year . Here and there , on ...
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... surface of modern London , would prove that long before the present streets were built , the site of the city was occupied by a civilised race which employed bronze and iron for the useful pur- poses of life , had a metal coinage , and ...
... surface of modern London , would prove that long before the present streets were built , the site of the city was occupied by a civilised race which employed bronze and iron for the useful pur- poses of life , had a metal coinage , and ...
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... surface of the land has not always been what it is to - day . In some districts , for example , when the dark layer of vegetable soil is turned up which supports the plants that keep the land so green , there may be found below it sand ...
... surface of the land has not always been what it is to - day . In some districts , for example , when the dark layer of vegetable soil is turned up which supports the plants that keep the land so green , there may be found below it sand ...
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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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