Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1886 - 516 páginas |
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... THE INFLUENCE OF RUNNING WATER IN GEOLOGICAL 31 CHANGES , AND HOW IT IS RECORDED CHAPTER IV . THE MEMORIALS LEFT BY LAKES CHAPTER V. HOW SPRINGS LEAVE THEIR MARK IN GEOLOGICAL HIS- TORY 56 66 CHAPTER VI . PAGE ICE - RECORDS 82 CHAPTER VII.
... THE INFLUENCE OF RUNNING WATER IN GEOLOGICAL 31 CHANGES , AND HOW IT IS RECORDED CHAPTER IV . THE MEMORIALS LEFT BY LAKES CHAPTER V. HOW SPRINGS LEAVE THEIR MARK IN GEOLOGICAL HIS- TORY 56 66 CHAPTER VI . PAGE ICE - RECORDS 82 CHAPTER VII.
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Archibald Geikie. CHAPTER VI . PAGE ICE - RECORDS 82 CHAPTER VII . THE MEMORIALS OF THE PRESENCE OF THE SEA 94 CHAPTER VIII . HOW PLANTS AND ANIMALS INSCRIBE THEIR RECORDS IN GEOLOGICAL HISTORY 108 CHAPTER IX . THE RECORDS LEFT BY ...
Archibald Geikie. CHAPTER VI . PAGE ICE - RECORDS 82 CHAPTER VII . THE MEMORIALS OF THE PRESENCE OF THE SEA 94 CHAPTER VIII . HOW PLANTS AND ANIMALS INSCRIBE THEIR RECORDS IN GEOLOGICAL HISTORY 108 CHAPTER IX . THE RECORDS LEFT BY ...
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Archibald Geikie. Turning to the pages of human history , we find there the records of similar changes in bygone times . Lakes , on which our rude forefathers paddled their canoes and built their wattled island - dwellings , have wholly ...
Archibald Geikie. Turning to the pages of human history , we find there the records of similar changes in bygone times . Lakes , on which our rude forefathers paddled their canoes and built their wattled island - dwellings , have wholly ...
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... records in which this history is chronicled are the soils and rocks under our feet . It is the task of the geologist so to arrange and interpret these records as to show through what successive changes the globe has passed , and how the ...
... records in which this history is chronicled are the soils and rocks under our feet . It is the task of the geologist so to arrange and interpret these records as to show through what successive changes the globe has passed , and how the ...
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... records of successive generations of plants and animals which , from early times , have peopled land and sea . The remains of these organisms have been preserved in the deposits of different ages , and can be compared and contrasted ...
... records of successive generations of plants and animals which , from early times , have peopled land and sea . The remains of these organisms have been preserved in the deposits of different ages , and can be compared and contrasted ...
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