Lectures on Geology: Being Outlines of the ScienceE. Bliss & E. White, 1825 - 358 páginas |
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... rivers , & c . an ex- ternal sea , and that the falling in of immense in- ternal caverns , accompanied by earthquakes , swallowed up most or all of it , leaving the seas only visible . From the bottom of this sea arose our present earth ...
... rivers , & c . an ex- ternal sea , and that the falling in of immense in- ternal caverns , accompanied by earthquakes , swallowed up most or all of it , leaving the seas only visible . From the bottom of this sea arose our present earth ...
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... rivers run perpendicularly to the ocean , in which they empty , wearing away mountains , producing vallies , and making deposits at their mouths , which are carried into the ocean , to form new beds , new islands , and new continents ...
... rivers run perpendicularly to the ocean , in which they empty , wearing away mountains , producing vallies , and making deposits at their mouths , which are carried into the ocean , to form new beds , new islands , and new continents ...
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... river . The Exploring Expedition sent by Government , under command of Major Long , to the Rocky Mountains , has greatly added to our knowledge of the secondary region to the west and north . The gentlemen engaged in establishing the ...
... river . The Exploring Expedition sent by Government , under command of Major Long , to the Rocky Mountains , has greatly added to our knowledge of the secondary region to the west and north . The gentlemen engaged in establishing the ...
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... rivers , or at the margin of mountainous ridges . They consist usu- ally of sand , clay , loam and gravel - and proceed mostly from the disintegration of rocks , by the ac- tion of running water , or of the atmosphere.- When carried ...
... rivers , or at the margin of mountainous ridges . They consist usu- ally of sand , clay , loam and gravel - and proceed mostly from the disintegration of rocks , by the ac- tion of running water , or of the atmosphere.- When carried ...
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... rivers , they often con- tain grains of metal , as gold , tin and iron , in such quantities as to render them worth exploring . Thus a shaft was sunk in the harbour of Falmouth , ( Eng . ) 50 feet through alluvial which originated in ...
... rivers , they often con- tain grains of metal , as gold , tin and iron , in such quantities as to render them worth exploring . Thus a shaft was sunk in the harbour of Falmouth , ( Eng . ) 50 feet through alluvial which originated in ...
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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.