Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... known facts were so few and isolated . Just before the beginning of this century , William Smith's " tabular view " gave coherence to an undigested mass of observa- tions gathered at random from various sources , and firmly established ...
... known facts were so few and isolated . Just before the beginning of this century , William Smith's " tabular view " gave coherence to an undigested mass of observa- tions gathered at random from various sources , and firmly established ...
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... known on this subject , and there was scarcely any evidence of the immense age of the earth . Gradually , however , facts have been collected which warrant us in believing that many millions of years have elapsed since the formation of ...
... known on this subject , and there was scarcely any evidence of the immense age of the earth . Gradually , however , facts have been collected which warrant us in believing that many millions of years have elapsed since the formation of ...
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... known . We could not attain to greater practical certainty with respect to these if they were terrestrial bodies , and measurable by line and balance . It can be said with certainty , for instance , that a planet cannot be more than nor ...
... known . We could not attain to greater practical certainty with respect to these if they were terrestrial bodies , and measurable by line and balance . It can be said with certainty , for instance , that a planet cannot be more than nor ...
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... and any material turning on an axis , and sufficiently plastic to allow of its yielding to centrifugal force , must take the same form as the earth is known to have . Here is a physical law THE UNSTRATIFIED FORMATIONS . 23.
... and any material turning on an axis , and sufficiently plastic to allow of its yielding to centrifugal force , must take the same form as the earth is known to have . Here is a physical law THE UNSTRATIFIED FORMATIONS . 23.
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An Introduction to Geology and Palaeontology Arthur Nicols. is known to have . Here is a physical law of universal application ; and , when we find that the earth is of the form which such a law always imposes , we cannot resist the ...
An Introduction to Geology and Palaeontology Arthur Nicols. is known to have . Here is a physical law of universal application ; and , when we find that the earth is of the form which such a law always imposes , we cannot resist the ...
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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.
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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.
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