Geology in 1835; a popular sketch of the progress, leading features, and latest discoveries of this rising science1835 |
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... extinct volcanos they are generally abundant . Various hypotheses have been suggested to account for the phenomena of volcanos . Heat , it is well known , is merely an intense chemical action , which may be excited in matter in a ...
... extinct volcanos they are generally abundant . Various hypotheses have been suggested to account for the phenomena of volcanos . Heat , it is well known , is merely an intense chemical action , which may be excited in matter in a ...
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... extinct species , and that they were generally associated with bones of the 4 * Metallic fragments or pebbles , arranged in horizontal layers , are also sometimes found in gravel beds formed of the wreck of the rocks which originally ...
... extinct species , and that they were generally associated with bones of the 4 * Metallic fragments or pebbles , arranged in horizontal layers , are also sometimes found in gravel beds formed of the wreck of the rocks which originally ...
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... extinct species of elephant , at eight thousand feet above the level of the sea , near Santa Fè de Bagota in South America , and another species , in the Andes near Quito , at an equal elevation ; and there are bones of horses , deer ...
... extinct species of elephant , at eight thousand feet above the level of the sea , near Santa Fè de Bagota in South America , and another species , in the Andes near Quito , at an equal elevation ; and there are bones of horses , deer ...
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... extinct species , whose remains are dispersed so largely over the temperate and frigid zones of the northern hemisphere . " " In a turbary on the estate of the Earl of Moira , in Ireland , a human body was dug up , a foot deep in gravel ...
... extinct species , whose remains are dispersed so largely over the temperate and frigid zones of the northern hemisphere . " " In a turbary on the estate of the Earl of Moira , in Ireland , a human body was dug up , a foot deep in gravel ...
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... extinct volcanic region of France , respecting the action of which history and tradition , although they go back two thousand years , are silent , exhibits no traces of the diluvial wave , the cones of loose cinders and craters ...
... extinct volcanic region of France , respecting the action of which history and tradition , although they go back two thousand years , are silent , exhibits no traces of the diluvial wave , the cones of loose cinders and craters ...
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