Elementary GeologyNewman and Ivison, 1856 - 424 páginas |
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Página 161 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Página 41 - ... remains, by having a structure more or less crystalline, and by being more highly inclined. They are called hypozoic rocks.
Página 352 - This region was first, by atmospheric and geological causes of previous operation under the will of the Almighty, brought into a condition of superficial ruin, or some kind of general disorder.
Página 369 - early in the Spring of last year, an application was made by the Master General and Board of Ordnance, to Dr. Buckland and Mr. Sedgwick, as Professors of Geology in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ; and to myself, as President of the Geological Society, to offer our opinion as to the expediency of combining a geological examination of the English counties with the geographical surveys now in progress.
Página 353 - For instance, the doctrine introduced by the astronomers 200 years ago, that the earth revolves on its axis, and that the heavenly bodies do not actually rise and set, seemed to the most acute and learned theologians of those times, to be in point blank opposition to the Bible, which declares that the sun ariseth and goeth down, and that God laid the foundation of the earth that it should not be removed forever. They also felt the earth to be at rest, and saw the heavens in motion ; so that this...
Página 104 - ... of sand or clay, or limestone containing none: next a layer made up of the fragments of rocks, animals, and plants, more or less comminuted: next a layer of fine clay: then a layer abounding in remains. And thus shall we find a succession of changes to the top of the series. Inf. From these facts it is inferred, that for the most part, the imbedded animals and plants lived and died on or near the spot where they are found; while it was only no wand then, that there was current enough to drift...
Página i - I am greatly in fault in not having answered your kind letter of Aug. 20th. with a copy of your valuable work on Geology, I took the work with me to the west in the expectation of looking it over and although I failed to read it satisfactorily, I glanced at it enough to convince me of its high value, and shall recommend it in my Lectures.
Página 101 - Hence, not only the frame-work of the AMOUNT OF ORGANIC REMAINS. 101 fossil skeleton of an extinct animal, but also the character of the muscles, by which each bone was moved, the external form and figure of the body, the food, and habits, and haunts, and mode of life of creatures that ceased to exist before the creation of the human race, can with a high degree of probability be ascertained.
Página 350 - ... creation, we must conceive of six separate pictures, in which this great work is represented in each successive stage of its progress towards completion. And as the performance of the painter, though it must have natural truth...
Página 400 - ... feet into a valley that looks as if it had sunk away from the surrounding world, leaving standing all over it thousands of abrupt, irregular, prismatic and columnar masses, frequently capped with irregular pyramids, and stretching up to a height of from 100 to 200 feet or more.