Principles of Geology; Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of GeologyD. Appleton & Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 834 |
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... greater may have been the inundation , if this valley was ever convulsed by a violent earthquake . * Humboldt relates the interesting fact that , after the annihilation of a large part of the inhabitants of Cumana , by an earthquake in ...
... greater may have been the inundation , if this valley was ever convulsed by a violent earthquake . * Humboldt relates the interesting fact that , after the annihilation of a large part of the inhabitants of Cumana , by an earthquake in ...
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... greater celerity . * It is proper , " he observes in continuation , " to derive our explanations from things which are obvious , and in some measure of daily occurrence , such as deluges , earthquakes , and volcanic eruptions , and ...
... greater celerity . * It is proper , " he observes in continuation , " to derive our explanations from things which are obvious , and in some measure of daily occurrence , such as deluges , earthquakes , and volcanic eruptions , and ...
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... greater lapse of ages than was consistent with Moslem orthodoxy ; for it is to be inferred from the Koran , that man and this planet were cre- ated at the same time ; and although Mahomet did not limit expressly the antiquity of the ...
... greater lapse of ages than was consistent with Moslem orthodoxy ; for it is to be inferred from the Koran , that man and this planet were cre- ated at the same time ; and although Mahomet did not limit expressly the antiquity of the ...
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... greater a number of like events must have been unattested and unrecorded during the last six thousand years . He also appealed to Vallisneri as an authority to prove that the mineral masses containing shells , bore , upon the whole ...
... greater a number of like events must have been unattested and unrecorded during the last six thousand years . He also appealed to Vallisneri as an authority to prove that the mineral masses containing shells , bore , upon the whole ...
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... greater extent of the latter sea at no distant era in the earth's history . His memoir on the fossil bones of Siberia attracted attention to some of the most remarkable phenomena in geology . He stated that he had found a rhinoceros ...
... greater extent of the latter sea at no distant era in the earth's history . His memoir on the fossil bones of Siberia attracted attention to some of the most remarkable phenomena in geology . He stated that he had found a rhinoceros ...
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Стр. 612 - Reviewing the facts here given, one is astonished at the amount of creative force, if such an expression may be used, displayed on these small, barren, and rocky islands ; and still more so, at its diverse yet analogous action on points so near each other. I have said that the Galapagos Archipelago might be called a satellite attached to America, but it should rather be called a group of satellites, physically similar, organically distinct, yet intimately related to each other, and all related in...
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Стр. 51 - ... planet, and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous to those of more ancient date. Although loosely deposited along the bottom of the ocean, they become afterwards altered and consolidated by...
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