Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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... mountain by descending torrents , with cones of detritus at their base . • II . Flat stones in a bank of river - shingle , showing the direction of the current that transported and left them 12. Section of alluvium showing direction of ...
... mountain by descending torrents , with cones of detritus at their base . • II . Flat stones in a bank of river - shingle , showing the direction of the current that transported and left them 12. Section of alluvium showing direction of ...
Página xvii
... Mountain granite 164 78. Columnar basalts of the Isle of Staffa , resting upon tuff ( to the right is Fingal's Cave ) 79. Section of stratified rock • 80. Section showing alternation of beds 166 • 172 174 81. False - bedded sandstone 82 ...
... Mountain granite 164 78. Columnar basalts of the Isle of Staffa , resting upon tuff ( to the right is Fingal's Cave ) 79. Section of stratified rock • 80. Section showing alternation of beds 166 • 172 174 81. False - bedded sandstone 82 ...
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... mountains now rise along the sky - line as they did long centuries ago , catching as of old the fresh rains of heaven and gathering them into the brooks and rivers which , through unknown ages , have never ceased to flow seawards . So ...
... mountains now rise along the sky - line as they did long centuries ago , catching as of old the fresh rains of heaven and gathering them into the brooks and rivers which , through unknown ages , have never ceased to flow seawards . So ...
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... mountain . So great have been the inroads of the sea that , in some instances , the sites of what a few hundred years ago were farms and hamlets , now lie under the sea half a mile or more from the modern shore . Elsewhere the land has ...
... mountain . So great have been the inroads of the sea that , in some instances , the sites of what a few hundred years ago were farms and hamlets , now lie under the sea half a mile or more from the modern shore . Elsewhere the land has ...
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... mountains , peaks , and precipices have been carved , how plains have been spread out , and how the story of these revolutions has been written in enduring characters upon the very framework of the land , he would feel the want of one ...
... mountains , peaks , and precipices have been carved , how plains have been spread out , and how the story of these revolutions has been written in enduring characters upon the very framework of the land , he would feel the want of one ...
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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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