Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... less than so many thousands or millions of miles distant from us , and that it cannot be more than nor less than so many times heavier than a globe of water of equal size . It cannot , however , be affirmed of any rock belonging to our ...
... less than so many thousands or millions of miles distant from us , and that it cannot be more than nor less than so many times heavier than a globe of water of equal size . It cannot , however , be affirmed of any rock belonging to our ...
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... less crystalline in structure , are ex- cessively hard , and do not split easily . The unstratified rocks , which are at the bottom of the lowest division , are the oldest of all ; and this will be apparent when we think of their origin ...
... less crystalline in structure , are ex- cessively hard , and do not split easily . The unstratified rocks , which are at the bottom of the lowest division , are the oldest of all ; and this will be apparent when we think of their origin ...
Pagina 16
... less mighty and far more interesting , when vegetation began to clothe the surface , and lowly forms of animal life inhabited the salt and fresh waters of a world progressing towards order , organization , and beauty . The stratified ...
... less mighty and far more interesting , when vegetation began to clothe the surface , and lowly forms of animal life inhabited the salt and fresh waters of a world progressing towards order , organization , and beauty . The stratified ...
Pagina 17
... less abundance . Included among them is coal - the fossilized remains of dense forests which usually grew in marshy situations . From these rocks we learn the marvellous history of life . They are the records , which nothing can falsify ...
... less abundance . Included among them is coal - the fossilized remains of dense forests which usually grew in marshy situations . From these rocks we learn the marvellous history of life . They are the records , which nothing can falsify ...
Pagina 18
... posed ; rivers have cut deep channels through the soil ; the melted rocks have been thrown out by volcanoes ; and in these situations the arrangement of the formations can be more or less well observed . By means 18 GEOLOGY .
... posed ; rivers have cut deep channels through the soil ; the melted rocks have been thrown out by volcanoes ; and in these situations the arrangement of the formations can be more or less well observed . By means 18 GEOLOGY .
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abundant accumulations America Ammonites animals appear Arctic beds birds bones carbon Carboniferous chalk character Cheaper Edition chemical clay climate cloth coal corals creatures Cretaceous crustacea Deinotherium Demy 8vo deposits Devonian earth Eocene Europe evidence existing extinct Fcap feet fishes Foraminifera forest formation forms fossil Frontispiece genera genus geological Glacial glacier granite Greenland heat hippopotamus human hyæna Illustrations immense islands Jurassic land Large crown 8vo Large post 8vo lime limestone living lower mammoth marine marsupials mass mastodon Meiocene MESOZOIC miles mountain North Northern numerous ocean Oolitic organic origin PALEOZOIC period Permian physical plants Pleiocene Pleistocene Poems Portrait present probably Professor pterodactyl regions remains represented reptiles river sandstones Second Edition shells sigillaria Silurian similar skeleton Small crown 8vo species stone strata stratified rocks structure surface teeth terrestrial TERTIARY thick Third Edition tion Translated Triassic Trilobites unstratified valley vast vegetation volcanic vols
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