Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - Всего страниц: 281 |
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... beds , and squeezed itself into crevices , forming veins and dykes . Such vast quantities of this molten matter are , even in our day , being cast up , that we are justified in attri- buting still more considerable changes in the strata ...
... beds , and squeezed itself into crevices , forming veins and dykes . Such vast quantities of this molten matter are , even in our day , being cast up , that we are justified in attri- buting still more considerable changes in the strata ...
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... against each other and the bed of the stream , they scoop the channel deeper and wider year by year , and arrange themselves along its course according to their weight . The boulders may remain for hundreds of THE STRATIFIED FORMATIONS .
... against each other and the bed of the stream , they scoop the channel deeper and wider year by year , and arrange themselves along its course according to their weight . The boulders may remain for hundreds of THE STRATIFIED FORMATIONS .
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... bed of soil derived from the South American continent , which in some distant geological age will be a stratified rock , mechanically similar in all essential characters to those forming large portions of the existing land . At low tide ...
... bed of soil derived from the South American continent , which in some distant geological age will be a stratified rock , mechanically similar in all essential characters to those forming large portions of the existing land . At low tide ...
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... by currents along coasts and against cliffs , scooping channels by their immense . weight - gigantic ploughs , which leave their furrows in the bed of the sea . No one can contemplate the majestic spectacle of a storm 46 GEOLOGY .
... by currents along coasts and against cliffs , scooping channels by their immense . weight - gigantic ploughs , which leave their furrows in the bed of the sea . No one can contemplate the majestic spectacle of a storm 46 GEOLOGY .
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... beds grew in swamps subject to inundation and even occasional incursions of the sea , and were mixed with various sediments . Consideration of these organic " rocks must be deferred for the present . 66 Every stratified rock is of ...
... beds grew in swamps subject to inundation and even occasional incursions of the sea , and were mixed with various sediments . Consideration of these organic " rocks must be deferred for the present . 66 Every stratified rock is of ...
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