Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... vast number of facts all pointing in one direction , that some rocks are much older than others , that some were formed comparatively rapidly , and that any one of the series indicates the lapse of a period of time compared with which ...
... vast number of facts all pointing in one direction , that some rocks are much older than others , that some were formed comparatively rapidly , and that any one of the series indicates the lapse of a period of time compared with which ...
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... 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 gradual loss of heat , because so many of its outlets have become closed . But from the ...
... 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 gradual loss of heat , because so many of its outlets have become closed . But from the ...
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... vast size . Of these Jupiter may be taken as an example . Eleven times the size of the earth , he ranks as the king of planets . He is 360,000,000 miles from us , but the telescope still re- veals some particulars of the physical ...
... vast size . Of these Jupiter may be taken as an example . Eleven times the size of the earth , he ranks as the king of planets . He is 360,000,000 miles from us , but the telescope still re- veals some particulars of the physical ...
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... vast period of time . Whatever difference of opinion there may be among geologists on the origin of the rocks of the unstratified series , now to be described , there is little doubt that they have at some time been subjected to intense ...
... vast period of time . Whatever difference of opinion there may be among geologists on the origin of the rocks of the unstratified series , now to be described , there is little doubt that they have at some time been subjected to intense ...
Pagina 30
... vast quantities of this molten matter are , even in our day , being cast up , that we are justified in attri- buting still more considerable changes in the strata to its influence in former times , when the forces at work were ...
... vast quantities of this molten matter are , even in our day , being cast up , that we are justified in attri- buting still more considerable changes in the strata to its influence in former times , when the forces at work were ...
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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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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.
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