Lectures on Geology: Being Outlines of the ScienceE. Bliss & E. White, 1825 - 358 páginas |
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... these became filled , the earth appeared in its most elevated parts , and formed mountains , while the lower parts remained covered by water , and formed vallies , oceans , & c . The beauty of language in which Burnett cloth- ed his 4 21.
... these became filled , the earth appeared in its most elevated parts , and formed mountains , while the lower parts remained covered by water , and formed vallies , oceans , & c . The beauty of language in which Burnett cloth- ed his 4 21.
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... elevated by these tremendous convul- sions of nature , caused by subterranean fires ; and he thus accounts for the existence of shells on the summits of mountains . Dr. Halley * ascribes the deluge to the shock of a comet , or some ...
... elevated by these tremendous convul- sions of nature , caused by subterranean fires ; and he thus accounts for the existence of shells on the summits of mountains . Dr. Halley * ascribes the deluge to the shock of a comet , or some ...
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... elevated before the fish had stocked the ocean ; but that afterwards shells and fish were thrown up , and deposited in strata along with the soil . This theory has been adopted at a later period . De la Pryme * supposes that the ...
... elevated before the fish had stocked the ocean ; but that afterwards shells and fish were thrown up , and deposited in strata along with the soil . This theory has been adopted at a later period . De la Pryme * supposes that the ...
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... elevated the waters around the Equator , and car- ried there , from higher latitudes , great quantities of slime , sand , clay , & c . , thus elevating the equa- torial , and depressing the polar regions . Thus , he says , we observe ...
... elevated the waters around the Equator , and car- ried there , from higher latitudes , great quantities of slime , sand , clay , & c . , thus elevating the equa- torial , and depressing the polar regions . Thus , he says , we observe ...
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... elevated by fire , inaccessible to be sure to human observation , but still existing and operating . Simple fusion , then , is considered as giving hardness and solidity to the different strata that have been condensed by means of it ...
... elevated by fire , inaccessible to be sure to human observation , but still existing and operating . Simple fusion , then , is considered as giving hardness and solidity to the different strata that have been condensed by means of it ...
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Actynolite alluvial alternating ammonites amygdaloidal arenaceous argillaceous argillite augit basalt beautiful beds belemnites bitumen calcareous chalk chlorite chlorite schist clay slate coal coarse color columnar compact felspar composed compound conglomerates containing crater crystals deluge deposits distinct earth elevated epidote feet felspar Fibrous foliated formation fossils fracture fragments Geologists Geology gneiss grains granite granular green greenstone grey greywacke gypsum hornblende Humboldt indurated ingredients iron laminæ laminar lava lignite limestone marble marine marl mass mentioned mica mica slate micaceous schist mountains observed occasionally occur ocean oolite organic remains ostrea passes peat porphyry position primary rocks primitive prismatic pyrites quantity quartz quartz rock Quartz sand red sandstone sandstone Scaly schist schistose secondary rocks serpentine shale shells sienite siliceous simple sometimes spar species splintery stone strata structure substances surface SYNOPSIS talc tertiary texture theory tion transition trap usually vallies varies varieties vegitable veins volcanic
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Página xii - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 78 - Nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here too were living flowers Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd like green anthers many a seeking head.
Página 103 - Villages, and woods, and rocks, Fall flat before their sweep. The region round, Where myrtle walks and groves of golden fruit Rose fair ; where harvest...
Página 78 - And plants of fibres fine, as silkworm's thread; Yea, beautiful as Mermaid's golden hair Upon the waves dispread: Others that, like the broad banana growing, Rais'd their long wrinkled leaves of purple hue, Like streamers wide out-flowing.
Página 47 - When by thus comparing a number of cases, agreeing in some circumstances, but differing in others, and all attended •with the same result, a philosopher connects, as a general law of nature, the event with its physical cause, he is said to proceed according to the method of induction.
Página 78 - With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted ; And now in open blossom spread, Stretch'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head.
Página 45 - ... by the water, in consequence either of these lands sinking down below the level of the sea, or of the sea being raised above the level of the lands. The particular portions of the earth also which the sea has abandoned by its last retreat, had been laid dry once before, and had at that time produced quadrupeds, birds, plants, and all kinds of terrestrial productions; it had then been inundated by the sea, which has since retired from it and left it to be occupied by its own proper inhabitants.