Elements of Geology: Including Fossil Botany and Palaeontology : a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science : Designed for the Use of Schools and General ReadersPratt, Woodford, 1847 - 432 หน้า |
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... in different parts of the world . These formations , known at the present What is said of the existence of coal , where climate renders it necessary for the comfort of man ? day under the name of coal fields , exist , 12 VEGETABLE REMAINS .
... in different parts of the world . These formations , known at the present What is said of the existence of coal , where climate renders it necessary for the comfort of man ? day under the name of coal fields , exist , 12 VEGETABLE REMAINS .
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... known that fermentation will be the result , especially , during the hot season , and that the heat pro- duced is sometimes so great as to produce spontaneous combustion , by which the mass is consumed . But if care be taken to confine ...
... known that fermentation will be the result , especially , during the hot season , and that the heat pro- duced is sometimes so great as to produce spontaneous combustion , by which the mass is consumed . But if care be taken to confine ...
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... known to natural- ists , and having their distinctive names , which are so minute , as to weigh , each , only the 500th part of a grain . Indeed , many of them will pass through holes in a sheet of paper , which have been made by a ...
... known to natural- ists , and having their distinctive names , which are so minute , as to weigh , each , only the 500th part of a grain . Indeed , many of them will pass through holes in a sheet of paper , which have been made by a ...
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... known , is at Monte Bolca , in Italy , and their remains seem to indicate that they per- ished suddenly , on arriving at a part of the then existing sea , which was rendered noxious by volcanic agency , and of which the adjoining ...
... known , is at Monte Bolca , in Italy , and their remains seem to indicate that they per- ished suddenly , on arriving at a part of the then existing sea , which was rendered noxious by volcanic agency , and of which the adjoining ...
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... known severally under the names of calcareous , siliceous and ferru- ginous petrifactions , though the latter is improperly so called , being penetrated with iron instead of stone . 55. Petrifactions often appear like the original wood ...
... known severally under the names of calcareous , siliceous and ferru- ginous petrifactions , though the latter is improperly so called , being penetrated with iron instead of stone . 55. Petrifactions often appear like the original wood ...
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accumulations ancient animals appears basalt beds belong bones breccia calcareous called carbonate cavern cavity chalk clay climates coal color common composed contain corals crater crystaline Cuvier deluge deposits Dicotyledonous dike earth earthquakes elephant elevation entire eruption Etym existing extinct feet feldspar ferns fishes fissures formations fossil genera genus geological geologists glacier gneiss granite height hornblend hundred Ichthyosaurus inches Infusoria inhabitants instances island known lake land lava layers lime limestone Lyell marine mass Mastodon matter Megatherium metallic metamorphic rocks mica miles molluscous motion mountains nearly Oolite organic remains origin peculiar period phenomena plants Plesiosaurus portion present day quadrupeds quantity quartz recent represented by Lign reptiles resembling river rocks sand sandstone shells skeleton solid sometimes species specimens springs stem stone strata stratified stratum structure substance supposed surface teeth tertiary thick tion trees tusks univalve vegetables veins volcanic wood
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หน้า 392 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
หน้า 144 - 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 397 - IV •Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work...
หน้า 394 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.
หน้า 394 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
หน้า 339 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...
หน้า 293 - ... processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones.
หน้า 316 - To prevent the consequences apprehended from the sudden bursting of this barrier, the people cut a tunnel through it, several hundred feet in length, before the water had risen to any considerable height. When the water had accumulated so as to reach this tunnel, or gallery, it ran through, and melting the ice it drained off about one half of the lake. But at length, on the approach of the hot season, the central portion of the remaining mass of ice gave way with a tremendous crash, and the residue...
หน้า 339 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The...
หน้า 315 - Although there are numerous indications on the steep sides of these hills of former slides of the same kind, yet no tradition had been handed down of any similar catastrophe within the memory of man, and the growth of the forest on the very spots now devastated clearly showed that for a long interval nothing similar had occurred. One of these moving masses was afterwards found to have slid three miles, with an average breadth of a quarter of a mile.