Faith and Thought, Том 13 |
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Thus every river transports a certain amount of soil in suspension from the high ground near its sources or from the bed through which it travels to the sea . But every year the high ground is wasted , the mouth is silted up , and the ...
Thus every river transports a certain amount of soil in suspension from the high ground near its sources or from the bed through which it travels to the sea . But every year the high ground is wasted , the mouth is silted up , and the ...
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Again , Mr. Croll makes a calculation , that the same river at its present rate would carry down the whole area drained by it to the sea - level in 41 million years . But , adopting a similar law , or supposing ...
Again , Mr. Croll makes a calculation , that the same river at its present rate would carry down the whole area drained by it to the sea - level in 41 million years . But , adopting a similar law , or supposing ...
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... but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological periods . When it was considered that the rocky face of ...
... but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological periods . When it was considered that the rocky face of ...
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... would depress a stratum of chalk ten feet deep to the zero of Fahrenheit would spend itself in turning 7 ] inches of rainfall into ice and snow . Thus the presence of moisture , whether in the air or the soil , or lakes and rivers ...
... would depress a stratum of chalk ten feet deep to the zero of Fahrenheit would spend itself in turning 7 ] inches of rainfall into ice and snow . Thus the presence of moisture , whether in the air or the soil , or lakes and rivers ...
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472 ) that the body of a man , which had been buried between two stumps of trees , had been covered by the deposit of the river to a much greater extent in four years than even 16 feet .
472 ) that the body of a man , which had been buried between two stumps of trees , had been covered by the deposit of the river to a much greater extent in four years than even 16 feet .
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