Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... heat , and its materials in a molten , if not a gaseous , state . As the new planet gradually lost heat , the surface con- tracted , and the rock material crystallized into a form which may , perhaps , be represented by granite . We may ...
... heat , and its materials in a molten , if not a gaseous , state . As the new planet gradually lost heat , the surface con- tracted , and the rock material crystallized into a form which may , perhaps , be represented by granite . We may ...
Pagina 16
... heat , and , as it were , the safety - valves without which earthquakes would cause vast rents in the surface . Many volcanoes have long ceased to emit lava , and some have become covered with stratified rocks . All this indicates a ...
... heat , and , as it were , the safety - valves without which earthquakes would cause vast rents in the surface . Many volcanoes have long ceased to emit lava , and some have become covered with stratified rocks . All this indicates a ...
Pagina 17
... heat , and cold have acted upon them inces- santly , until an immense accumulation of detritus has resulted , and this has been arranged and rearranged by oceans and rivers , and worked into a form capable of supporting life . The ...
... heat , and cold have acted upon them inces- santly , until an immense accumulation of detritus has resulted , and this has been arranged and rearranged by oceans and rivers , and worked into a form capable of supporting life . The ...
Pagina 24
... heat like a sun , she attracted similar masses of matter from space , and gathered these in to her own body while crossing their paths of cir- culation . Since , as we know , there is now a yearly increase of her volume , amounting to ...
... heat like a sun , she attracted similar masses of matter from space , and gathered these in to her own body while crossing their paths of cir- culation . Since , as we know , there is now a yearly increase of her volume , amounting to ...
Pagina 25
... heat and violent volcanic action , there can be no 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 ...
... heat and violent volcanic action , there can be no 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 ...
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Pagina 35 - The Foray of Queen Meave, and other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age.
Pagina 23 - Life and Letters of. Edited by the Rev. STOPFORD BROOKE, MA I. Two vols., uniform with the Sermons. With Steel Portrait, Crown 8vo, Js.
Pagina 16 - KINGSLEY, Charles, MA— Letters and Memories of his Life. Edited by his Wife. With two Steel Engraved Portraits, and Vignettes on Wood. Fourteenth Cabinet Edition. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 12s. %* Also a People's Edition, in one volume. With Portrait. Crown 8vo, 6s. All Saints' Day, and other Sermons. Edited by the Rev. W. HARRISON. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 7*. 6</. True Words for Brave Men. A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors
Pagina 155 - 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, while 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.
Pagina 36 - ELLIOTT (Ebenezer), The Corn Law Rhymer. — POEMS. Edited by his son, the Rev. Edwin Elliott, of St. John's, Antigua. 2 vols. crown 8vo.
Pagina 133 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Pagina 19 - Frank, FRGS— Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa.
Pagina 7 - A General History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander the Great, with a sketch of the subsequent History to the present time. New Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 7*. 6d. Tales of Ancient Greece.
Pagina 22 - Joshua. By Rev. JJ LIAS, MA ; with Homilies by Rev. SR ALDRIDGE, LL.B., Rev. R. GLOVER, REV. E. DE PRESSENSE, DD, Rev. J. WAITE, BA, Rev.
Pagina 11 - GARDNER (J.), MD Longevity: The Means of Prolonging Life after Middle Age. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Small crown 8vo. Cloth, price 4*.