Rudiments of GeologyW. and R. Chambers, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... origin of the globe eschewed , which had so long impeded the legitimate prosecution of the subject . If , how- ever , long repressed by the imprudence of its early cultivators , no branch of human knowledge has made more rapid progress ...
... origin of the globe eschewed , which had so long impeded the legitimate prosecution of the subject . If , how- ever , long repressed by the imprudence of its early cultivators , no branch of human knowledge has made more rapid progress ...
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... origin and formation , through all the changes it has undergone , up to the present time ; de- scribing its external appearance , its plants and animals , at each successive period . As yet , geology is the mere aim to arrive at such ...
... origin and formation , through all the changes it has undergone , up to the present time ; de- scribing its external appearance , its plants and animals , at each successive period . As yet , geology is the mere aim to arrive at such ...
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... origin of subterranean fire ; at present we have merely to do with its sensible effects . 67. Igneous agency may exert itself either chemically or mechanically ; chemically , as in the production of new com- pounds , gaseous admixtures ...
... origin of subterranean fire ; at present we have merely to do with its sensible effects . 67. Igneous agency may exert itself either chemically or mechanically ; chemically , as in the production of new com- pounds , gaseous admixtures ...
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... origin to similar causes . 70. Volcanic forces not only elevate but fracture and con- tort the originally plane strata , at the same time that they throw up rocky matter which is not arranged in distinct layers . It has been already ...
... origin to similar causes . 70. Volcanic forces not only elevate but fracture and con- tort the originally plane strata , at the same time that they throw up rocky matter which is not arranged in distinct layers . It has been already ...
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... origin in compari- son with those masses produced by volcanic fusion . Other distinctions between aqueous and igneous rocks will hereafter be pointed out to the student ; but at present he cannot fail to perceive that sand , clay , mud ...
... origin in compari- son with those masses produced by volcanic fusion . Other distinctions between aqueous and igneous rocks will hereafter be pointed out to the student ; but at present he cannot fail to perceive that sand , clay , mud ...
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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...