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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... feet thick , and distributed all over the world . According to their structure , all rocks may be divided into two great classes - the unstratified and the stratified . The unstratified have been formed , to a great extent or wholly ...
... feet thick , and distributed all over the world . According to their structure , all rocks may be divided into two great classes - the unstratified and the stratified . The unstratified have been formed , to a great extent or wholly ...
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... which runs down their sides , in some cases forming rivers many miles long and broad , and hundreds of feet deep , is melted rock matter derived from the mass beneath , which has probably never before been crystal- lized INTRODUCTORY . 15.
... which runs down their sides , in some cases forming rivers many miles long and broad , and hundreds of feet deep , is melted rock matter derived from the mass beneath , which has probably never before been crystal- lized INTRODUCTORY . 15.
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... feet high , may have been thus elevated ; and , though they would then be extremely rugged , their present comparative smoothness of outline is due to the subsequent action upon them of air and water during a vast period of time ...
... feet high , may have been thus elevated ; and , though they would then be extremely rugged , their present comparative smoothness of outline is due to the subsequent action upon them of air and water during a vast period of time ...
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... feet deep . On so comparatively small an area as the island of Hawaii , a lava stream , sixty - five miles long and in some places ten miles wide , was formed in the year 1855. Similar instances are furnished at frequent intervals by ...
... feet deep . On so comparatively small an area as the island of Hawaii , a lava stream , sixty - five miles long and in some places ten miles wide , was formed in the year 1855. Similar instances are furnished at frequent intervals by ...
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... feet of rock and the great internal heat of the earth at depths at which these changes have taken place , but the probability of this origin of these rocks may be inferred from experiment . Of this at least there is no doubt , that some ...
... feet of rock and the great internal heat of the earth at depths at which these changes have taken place , but the probability of this origin of these rocks may be inferred from experiment . Of this at least there is no doubt , that some ...
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