The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - Всего страниц: 481 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 59
Стр. 8
... waste from which the surface of the land is continually suffering . We do not need to appeal , therefore , to unknown or recondite causes to account for such topographical features as those that diversify sea . the dry land . The very ...
... waste from which the surface of the land is continually suffering . We do not need to appeal , therefore , to unknown or recondite causes to account for such topographical features as those that diversify sea . the dry land . The very ...
Стр. 16
... waste . A few years ago I made some researches among grave- yards in towns and in the country in different parts of Scot- land , with the view of obtaining some data for the discussion of the question of weathering . Great differences ...
... waste . A few years ago I made some researches among grave- yards in towns and in the country in different parts of Scot- land , with the view of obtaining some data for the discussion of the question of weathering . Great differences ...
Стр. 23
... wastes of this ruined barony , and seen only a few stunted bushes of broom , and a few scattered tufts of withered bent , occupying , amid utter barrenness , the place of what , in the middle of the seventeenth century , had been the ...
... wastes of this ruined barony , and seen only a few stunted bushes of broom , and a few scattered tufts of withered bent , occupying , amid utter barrenness , the place of what , in the middle of the seventeenth century , had been the ...
Стр. 34
... waste of the surface of the land probably reaches its maximum , and the rivers are then not permitted to exercise their functions without constant modification . A river can only act upon the rocks over which it flows . Hence when it is ...
... waste of the surface of the land probably reaches its maximum , and the rivers are then not permitted to exercise their functions without constant modification . A river can only act upon the rocks over which it flows . Hence when it is ...
Стр. 41
... waste to which the surface of the earth is everywhere subjected , the observer is soon struck with the signal proofs of decay furnished by that outer border of the land which is washed by the sea . The abrupt cliffs that shoot up from ...
... waste to which the surface of the earth is everywhere subjected , the observer is soon struck with the signal proofs of decay furnished by that outer border of the land which is washed by the sea . The abrupt cliffs that shoot up from ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
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 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
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
Популярные отрывки
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...