Geology in 1835: A Popular Sketch of the Progress, Leading Features, and Latest Discoveries of this Rising ScienceSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1835 - 139 หน้า |
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... reward of perseverance , and a powerful stimulus to the exertions of those to whom Nature has imparted a scientific taste , but Fortune has denied her ad- vantages . In tracing the progress of science , it is lamentable 7.
... reward of perseverance , and a powerful stimulus to the exertions of those to whom Nature has imparted a scientific taste , but Fortune has denied her ad- vantages . In tracing the progress of science , it is lamentable 7.
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... natural phenomena , with which we are so familiar . Voltaire , for instance , who has been all but deified by the ... Nature in her sportive mood - that oyster shells found in high situations on the Jura mountains might have been the ...
... natural phenomena , with which we are so familiar . Voltaire , for instance , who has been all but deified by the ... Nature in her sportive mood - that oyster shells found in high situations on the Jura mountains might have been the ...
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... . The key to this long - concealed volume of nature , and to all its mystic revelations , is the extraneous fossil , ( as it is termed , ) the organic remains embedded in the solid framework of the globe . By means of these 9.
... . The key to this long - concealed volume of nature , and to all its mystic revelations , is the extraneous fossil , ( as it is termed , ) the organic remains embedded in the solid framework of the globe . By means of these 9.
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... nature's saws , " as Playfair says , " are continually at work in cutting down the mountains , " geological changes on a scale of greater magnitude are constantly going on . Thus in Switzerland , the fall of an enormous mountain- mass ...
... nature's saws , " as Playfair says , " are continually at work in cutting down the mountains , " geological changes on a scale of greater magnitude are constantly going on . Thus in Switzerland , the fall of an enormous mountain- mass ...
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... a temple as it is called , dedicated " to Nature , " has been raised for the accommodation of her devotees , who come from all parts of the world to worship at this frigid shrine . The vertical masses of granite and schistose ( slaty ) 24.
... a temple as it is called , dedicated " to Nature , " has been raised for the accommodation of her devotees , who come from all parts of the world to worship at this frigid shrine . The vertical masses of granite and schistose ( slaty ) 24.
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abundance accumulation action Alps ancient animals antediluvian appear Astronomy basalt beds beneath bones breccia Buckland buried causes caverns caves chalk changes Charnwood Forest circumstance coal coal-formation coast contain convulsions Cornwall covered Cuvier deluge deposit depth diluvial discovered discovery earth earthy matter effect elephant elevation Eningen enormous Europe existing extinct fact fissures formation formed fossil fragments geologists Geology globe gradual granite gravel heat hills Humphry Davy hyænas ichthyosaurus imbedded inferred inhabitants instance interior island Jura mountains lake land Leicestershire lias lime limestone Lyell Lyme Regis megatherium miles mineral masses Monkwearmouth mountains nature observed ocean oolitic organic contents organic remains origin period phenomena plants plesiosaurus portion position present primitive rocks produced proved pterodactylus quadrupeds recent regions relics remarkable remote reptiles river sand sandstone sedimentary shells skeleton solid species specimens strata stratified substance supposed temperature termed thickness thousand tion traces tropical valleys vast violent volcanic
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หน้า 99 - Milton's fiend, qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. " The fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
หน้า 46 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
หน้า 101 - With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world...
หน้า 54 - I may say thousand, individuals must have contributed their remains to make up this appalling mass of the dust of death. It seems in great part to be derived from comminuted and pulverised bone; for the fleshy parts of animal bodies produce by their decomposition so small a quantity of permanent earthy residuum, that we must seek for the origin of this mass principally in decayed bones. The cave is so dry, that the black earth lies in the state of loose powder, and rises in dust under the feet; it...
หน้า 54 - The quantity of animal matter accumulated on this floor is the most surprising and the only thing of the kind I ever witnessed ; and many hundred, I may say thousand, individuals must have contributed their remains to make up this appalling mass of the dust of death.
หน้า 100 - Ichthyosaurus has the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of...
หน้า 53 - Axholm, in Lincolnshire. The antique sandals on her feet afforded evidence of her having been buried there for many ages ; yet her nails, hair, and skin, are described as having shown hardly any marks of decay. On the estate of the Earl of Moira, in Ireland, a human body was dug up, a foot deep in gravel, covered with eleven feet of moss ; the body was completely clothed, and the garments seemed all to be made of hair. Before the use of wool was known in that country, the clothing of the inhabitants...
หน้า 47 - Dolomieu, that, if there be any fact well established in geology, it is this, that the surface of our globe has suffered a great and sudden revolution, the period of which cannot be dated further back than five thousand or six thousand years.
หน้า 58 - And hence it follows, that wherever such caves and fissures occur, ie in the greater part of Europe, and in whatever districts of the other Continents such bones may be found under similar circumstances, there did not take place any such interchange of the surfaces occupied respectively by land and water, as many writers of high authority have conceived to have immediately succeeded the last great geological revolution, by an tmiversal and transient inundation which has affected the planet we inhabit.
หน้า 54 - It is literally true that in this single cavern (the size and proportions of which are nearly equal to those of the interior of a large church), there are hundreds of cart-loads of black animal dust entirely covering the whole floor to a depth which must average at least six feet, and which, if we multiply this depth by the length and breadth of the cavern, will be found to exceed 5000 cubic feet. The whole of this mass has been again and again dug over in search of teeth and bones, which it still...