The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... Old Red Sand- stone age . Physical features of the epoch . - Its plants , crus- taceans , shell - fish , and fishes . 4. The Carboniferous age . -The physical geography and climatal conditions of the period . - Its forest - growths ...
... Old Red Sand- stone age . Physical features of the epoch . - Its plants , crus- taceans , shell - fish , and fishes . 4. The Carboniferous age . -The physical geography and climatal conditions of the period . - Its forest - growths ...
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... Old Red , or the discovery of a tiny Palæoniscus which is equally decisive of the New . Exalted as may be the task of solving the physical and vital problems of the globe , the duty of turn- ing to account its mineral and metallic ...
... Old Red , or the discovery of a tiny Palæoniscus which is equally decisive of the New . Exalted as may be the task of solving the physical and vital problems of the globe , the duty of turn- ing to account its mineral and metallic ...
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... Red ) , CARBONIFEROUS , ...... DEVONIAN ( Old Red ) , MESOZOIC ( Middle Life ) , PALEOZOIC ( Ancient Life ) , SILURIAN , CAMBRIAN , METAMORPHIC ,. HYPOZOIC ( Under Life ) , Such are the main stages into which geologists have ar- ranged ...
... Red ) , CARBONIFEROUS , ...... DEVONIAN ( Old Red ) , MESOZOIC ( Middle Life ) , PALEOZOIC ( Ancient Life ) , SILURIAN , CAMBRIAN , METAMORPHIC ,. HYPOZOIC ( Under Life ) , Such are the main stages into which geologists have ar- ranged ...
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... Old Red sandstone , or , as it is now more frequently termed , the Devonian epoch . And here , in its sandy and pebbly deposits , we find more decided evidence of frequent alternations of sea and land , of broad shallow bays , and long ...
... Old Red sandstone , or , as it is now more frequently termed , the Devonian epoch . And here , in its sandy and pebbly deposits , we find more decided evidence of frequent alternations of sea and land , of broad shallow bays , and long ...
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... old red period had its areas of fer- tility and areas of dwarfish sterility - regions where climatic influences were mild and genial , and others where they were rigorous and destructive of vegetation . In the Animal World we have still ...
... old red period had its areas of fer- tility and areas of dwarfish sterility - regions where climatic influences were mild and genial , and others where they were rigorous and destructive of vegetation . In the Animal World we have still ...
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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...