Rudiments of GeologyW. and R. Chambers, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... elevated being the colder regions . All these influences are at present in active force , affecting more or less the growth and distribution of animal and vegetable life ; and in like manner must they have ex- erted themselves at former ...
... elevated being the colder regions . All these influences are at present in active force , affecting more or less the growth and distribution of animal and vegetable life ; and in like manner must they have ex- erted themselves at former ...
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... elevated above the limits of vegetable or animal life , and covered with eternal snows . Some parts of the exposed surface are so hard , that no sensible decay is experienced for ages ; others so soft and loose , that scarcely a shower ...
... elevated above the limits of vegetable or animal life , and covered with eternal snows . Some parts of the exposed surface are so hard , that no sensible decay is experienced for ages ; others so soft and loose , that scarcely a shower ...
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... elevated and depressed . Of the surface configuration of the world in its earlier ages , we have no positive knowledge ; but we are certain that what- ever it might be , it would materially influence the changes then going forward ...
... elevated and depressed . Of the surface configuration of the world in its earlier ages , we have no positive knowledge ; but we are certain that what- ever it might be , it would materially influence the changes then going forward ...
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... of isolated volcanoes ; but they frequently occur in ranges , producing , by the union of their forces , elevated mountain chains like those of South America . In these ranges , some of the vents. View of Mount Etna . 38 GEOLOGY .
... of isolated volcanoes ; but they frequently occur in ranges , producing , by the union of their forces , elevated mountain chains like those of South America . In these ranges , some of the vents. View of Mount Etna . 38 GEOLOGY .
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... elevated by these causes . Here the sedimentary strata are not only thrown out of their original level position , Sea but are bent , broken asunder , and in some places overlaid by discharges of volcanic matter ; hence a very obvious ...
... elevated by these causes . Here the sedimentary strata are not only thrown out of their original level position , Sea but are bent , broken asunder , and in some places overlaid by discharges of volcanic matter ; hence a very obvious ...
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Página 185 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...
Página 88 - With regard to the atmosphere, also, we infer, that had it differed materially from its actual condition, it might have so far affected the rays of light that a corresponding difference from the eyes of existing Crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding light itself, also, we learn, from the resemblance of these most ancient...
Página 185 - ... the tide reaches every day, it is found to be full of worms of different lengths and colours, some being as fine as a thread, and several feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour.
Página 192 - Part of the bed of the sea, says Mrs. Graham, remained bare and dry at high water, " with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia...
Página 185 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards.
Página 243 - Edinburgh," on the Vertical Position and Convolutions of certain Strata, and their relations with Granite, broached that theory of lateral pressure applied by some unknown force outside the area of the foldings themselves, which is still regarded as the best yet originated on...