Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... doubt the beauty and the apparent movement of the heavenly bodies would be calculated to arrest the attention more forcibly than any terrestrial phenomenon ; and the observations , however vague they might be , had a practical utility ...
... doubt the beauty and the apparent movement of the heavenly bodies would be calculated to arrest the attention more forcibly than any terrestrial phenomenon ; and the observations , however vague they might be , had a practical utility ...
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... doubt many thousands of years were occupied in the formation of some rocks of no great thickness com- paratively . The reasoning on which these and like con- clusions are founded is almost entirely inductive ; but it approaches the ...
... doubt many thousands of years were occupied in the formation of some rocks of no great thickness com- paratively . The reasoning on which these and like con- clusions are founded is almost entirely inductive ; but it approaches the ...
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... doubt . It is one of those bodies which , if it ever had a period of fitness for life , as we under- stand it , has long passed through that , has lost all its original heat , and is now an interesting ruin , with no apparent relation ...
... doubt . It is one of those bodies which , if it ever had a period of fitness for life , as we under- stand it , has long passed through that , has lost all its original heat , and is now an interesting ruin , with no apparent relation ...
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... doubt retains a portion of its original heat , perhaps equal to that which remains to us . If we probe the depths of space still further , we come to planetary bodies of vast size . Of these Jupiter may be taken as an example . Eleven ...
... doubt retains a portion of its original heat , perhaps equal to that which remains to us . If we probe the depths of space still further , we come to planetary bodies of vast size . Of these Jupiter may be taken as an example . Eleven ...
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... doubt that they have at some time been subjected to intense heat ; hence they are called Plutonic , from the mythical god of the infernal regions . Granite may be taken as an example . It consists principally of quartz , mica , felspar ...
... doubt that they have at some time been subjected to intense heat ; hence they are called Plutonic , from the mythical god of the infernal regions . Granite may be taken as an example . It consists principally of quartz , mica , felspar ...
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