Nature, Volume 73Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1906 - Electronic journals |
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... feet long ( known as Atlantosaurus ) . What the size of the entire animal must have been we can best judge by paying a visit to the Cromwell Road Museum to see the skeleton of the Diplodocus lately set up there , which is So feet long ...
... feet long ( known as Atlantosaurus ) . What the size of the entire animal must have been we can best judge by paying a visit to the Cromwell Road Museum to see the skeleton of the Diplodocus lately set up there , which is So feet long ...
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... feet , which limits the velocity of discharge to less than 35 feet per second . Even at this velocity , however , the water has proved capable of lifting a boulder , weigh- ing more than 60 tons , out of its natural bed in apparently ...
... feet , which limits the velocity of discharge to less than 35 feet per second . Even at this velocity , however , the water has proved capable of lifting a boulder , weigh- ing more than 60 tons , out of its natural bed in apparently ...
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... feet . fortunately , sufficient data for plotting the 500 - feet contour line - one of the most interesting of all - do not exist ; and even the lines shown on this map are only approximations . Here , at the outset , the lack of a good ...
... feet . fortunately , sufficient data for plotting the 500 - feet contour line - one of the most interesting of all - do not exist ; and even the lines shown on this map are only approximations . Here , at the outset , the lack of a good ...
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... feet . In the west , valleys containing settlements at more than 6000 feet were to be found . After a detailed examination of each region , its economic con- ditions were briefly discussed , and their relationship to rainfall pointed ...
... feet . In the west , valleys containing settlements at more than 6000 feet were to be found . After a detailed examination of each region , its economic con- ditions were briefly discussed , and their relationship to rainfall pointed ...
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... feet long by 100 feet wide . In the basement there are eight pumps for pumping the water into the boilers . The boilers are on two floors , each containing thirty - two boilers , with floor space available for eight more boilers on each ...
... feet long by 100 feet wide . In the basement there are eight pumps for pumping the water into the boilers . The boilers are on two floors , each containing thirty - two boilers , with floor space available for eight more boilers on each ...
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