The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - Всего страниц: 481 |
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... change in the attitude of geologists towards questions of topo- graphy . The views which , in concert with my col- leagues in the Geological Survey , I had been led to adopt from close and constant examination of the evidence , are now ...
... change in the attitude of geologists towards questions of topo- graphy . The views which , in concert with my col- leagues in the Geological Survey , I had been led to adopt from close and constant examination of the evidence , are now ...
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... changes of scene and surroundings that fall to the lot of a member of the Geological Survey . " The principles which have guided me in the following investigation are far from new : they were laid down long ago by Hutton and Playfair ...
... changes of scene and surroundings that fall to the lot of a member of the Geological Survey . " The principles which have guided me in the following investigation are far from new : they were laid down long ago by Hutton and Playfair ...
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... change . He sees the shores worn away by the sea , the plains strewn with debris by the streams , and the meadows torn open by the inroads of floods . himself too helps to transform the landscape . up peat mosses , turns wet bogs into ...
... change . He sees the shores worn away by the sea , the plains strewn with debris by the streams , and the meadows torn open by the inroads of floods . himself too helps to transform the landscape . up peat mosses , turns wet bogs into ...
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... change which have not altogether failed to catch the eye even of the most untutored races . Their grim , naked cliffs and splintered precipices , their yawning defiles and heaps of ruins , have always appealed to the fancy and the fears ...
... change which have not altogether failed to catch the eye even of the most untutored races . Their grim , naked cliffs and splintered precipices , their yawning defiles and heaps of ruins , have always appealed to the fancy and the fears ...
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... change which have not altogether failed to catch the eye even of the most untutored races . Their grim , naked cliffs and splintered precipices , their yawning defiles and heaps of ruins , have always appealed to the fancy and the fears ...
... change which have not altogether failed to catch the eye even of the most untutored races . Their grim , naked cliffs and splintered precipices , their yawning defiles and heaps of ruins , have always appealed to the fancy and the fears ...
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The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie Полный просмотр - 1887 |
The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie Полный просмотр - 1887 |
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Ayrshire basalt basin beds boulder-clay boulders Caithness Carboniferous cliffs Clyde coast coast-line conglomerate conspicuous corries crags crest deep denudation deposits descend district drainage dykes east erosion escarpments feet Firth Firth of Clyde frosts geological structure Glacial glaciers Glen gneiss granite greywacke height high grounds Highlands hills hollow ice-sheet ice-worn island lake land landscape limestone Loch Loch Fyne Lomond Lower Old Red Lowlands marked mass Midland Valley miles moraines Moray Firth mounds mountains narrow northern Ochil Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone once peat Pentland Hills Permian plain precipices present quartzite railway raised beach ravine region ridges rise river rocky runs sand scenery schists Scotland Scottish sea-lochs seen shores side Silurian Skye slopes smooth Southern Uplands stone strata stream striæ striking sub-aërial summit surface Sutherland table-land terrace traced tract volcanic rocks waste watershed western wide worn
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Стр. 374 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Стр. 7 - Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
Стр. 316 - Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling ; one abode, no more...
Стр. 72 - ... acclivity to a distance almost incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet.
Стр. 161 - Inscribed, as with the silence of the thought, Upon its bleak and visionary sides, The history of many a winter storm, Or obscure records of the path of fire.
Стр. 11 - If, indeed, a river consisted of a single stream without branches, running in a straight valley, it might be supposed that some great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened at once the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean; but, when the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at...
Стр. 244 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Стр. 59 - This massive structure, rising 112 feet above the sea-level, 'is literally buried in foam and spray to the very top during ground swells when there is no wind.' Experiments were made there from the middle of September 1844 to the end of March 1845, and the greatest recorded pressure was 3013 pounds on the square foot.
Стр. 59 - It is certain, however, that within a recent period the sea has made such an impression upon the sands of Barrey, on the northern side of the Tay, that the light-houses at the entrance of...