Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the WorldJohn Murray, 1845 - Всего страниц: 519 |
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... Coast - road to Coquimbo - Great loads carried by the miners - Coquimbo - Earthquake- Step - formed terraces - Absence of recent de- posits - Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations - Excursion up the valley - Road to Guasco ...
... Coast - road to Coquimbo - Great loads carried by the miners - Coquimbo - Earthquake- Step - formed terraces - Absence of recent de- posits - Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations - Excursion up the valley - Road to Guasco ...
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... coast of Africa , and at points sixteen hundred miles distant in a north and south direction . In some dust which was collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land , I was much surprised to find particles of stone above the ...
... coast of Africa , and at points sixteen hundred miles distant in a north and south direction . In some dust which was collected on a vessel three hundred miles from the land , I was much surprised to find particles of stone above the ...
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... coast . It rests on ancient volcanic rocks , and has been covered by a stream of basalt , which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom . It is interesting to trace the changes , produced by the heat ...
... coast . It rests on ancient volcanic rocks , and has been covered by a stream of basalt , which must have entered the sea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom . It is interesting to trace the changes , produced by the heat ...
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... coast of America , and 350 from the island of Fernando Noronha . The highest point is only fifty feet above the level of the sea , and the entire circumference is under three - quarters of a mile . This small point rises abruptly out of ...
... coast of America , and 350 from the island of Fernando Noronha . The highest point is only fifty feet above the level of the sea , and the entire circumference is under three - quarters of a mile . This small point rises abruptly out of ...
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... coast , their chief sustenance from these swimming crabs . Seamen invariably attribute the discoloration of the water to spawn ; but I found this to be the case only on one occasion . At the distance of several leagues from the Archipe ...
... coast , their chief sustenance from these swimming crabs . Seamen invariably attribute the discoloration of the water to spawn ; but I found this to be the case only on one occasion . At the distance of several leagues from the Archipe ...
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