Works, Volume 23D. Estes, 1989 |
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Page 186
... RANGES , which we are first to exam- ine , are , for the most part , broad tabular masses of sand- stone , limestone ... range in substance , as well as in external aspect ; nearly all these tabular masses of rock being composed of a ...
... RANGES , which we are first to exam- ine , are , for the most part , broad tabular masses of sand- stone , limestone ... range in substance , as well as in external aspect ; nearly all these tabular masses of rock being composed of a ...
Page 203
... ranges of Alps , com- posed of slaty crystallines , yielding only to steel wedges or to gunpowder , will be as lofty and as wild in struct- ure as at c . Without this beneficent connection of hard- ness of material with height ...
... ranges of Alps , com- posed of slaty crystallines , yielding only to steel wedges or to gunpowder , will be as lofty and as wild in struct- ure as at c . Without this beneficent connection of hard- ness of material with height ...
Page 208
... ranges of the crystalline rocks opposed to two ranges of the coherents , both having their distinctive characters , the one of vertical fracture , the other of level continuousness , developed on an enormous scale . I am aware of no ...
... ranges of the crystalline rocks opposed to two ranges of the coherents , both having their distinctive characters , the one of vertical fracture , the other of level continuousness , developed on an enormous scale . I am aware of no ...
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