The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... estuaries and seas , and became petrified , or converted into stone , as these sedi- ments solidified into rocky ... estuary -as the coral - reef and shell - bed are gradually increasing and growing , as it were , into limestone before ...
... estuaries and seas , and became petrified , or converted into stone , as these sedi- ments solidified into rocky ... estuary -as the coral - reef and shell - bed are gradually increasing and growing , as it were , into limestone before ...
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... estuaries and seas ; and the fossils they imbed will be more or less perfectly preserved , just as they were deposited in the areas where they lived and grew , or were drifted from a distance in detached and scattered fragments - accord ...
... estuaries and seas ; and the fossils they imbed will be more or less perfectly preserved , just as they were deposited in the areas where they lived and grew , or were drifted from a distance in detached and scattered fragments - accord ...
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... estuary and the profoundest ocean - depth , their office seems to be the reconversion of organic matter from ultimate ... estuaries are in great part composed of. Radiate Aspect of Animal Life . Molluscan Aspect of Animal Life . 60 THE ...
... estuary and the profoundest ocean - depth , their office seems to be the reconversion of organic matter from ultimate ... estuaries are in great part composed of. Radiate Aspect of Animal Life . Molluscan Aspect of Animal Life . 60 THE ...
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David Page. existing seas and estuaries are in great part composed of the shelly coverings of the minute foraminiferæ , and the sili- ceous muds composed of the still minuter shields of in- fusoria , so we shall afterwards find that ...
David Page. existing seas and estuaries are in great part composed of the shelly coverings of the minute foraminiferæ , and the sili- ceous muds composed of the still minuter shields of in- fusoria , so we shall afterwards find that ...
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... estuaries , there to be spread out in layers of varied consistency , so the latter as incessantly strives to elevate and reconstruct— here throwing up the sea - bed into new islands , there dis- rupting and undulating the solid crust ...
... estuaries , there to be spread out in layers of varied consistency , so the latter as incessantly strives to elevate and reconstruct— here throwing up the sea - bed into new islands , there dis- rupting and undulating the solid crust ...
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Стр. 211 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 210 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Стр. 210 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...