Geology in 1835; a popular sketch of the progress, leading features, and latest discoveries of this rising science1835 |
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... fragments . Woodward , to account for the embedding of ma- rine shells in rocky strata , imagined the principle of cohesion , which holds the particles of matter together , to have been momentarily suspended , which gave rise to the ...
... fragments . Woodward , to account for the embedding of ma- rine shells in rocky strata , imagined the principle of cohesion , which holds the particles of matter together , to have been momentarily suspended , which gave rise to the ...
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... fragments ; and that vege- tation with all its conditions , light and heat , soil and at- mosphere , once existed where the fragile plant was pre- served . It could not have been transported thither , for its delicate texture would have ...
... fragments ; and that vege- tation with all its conditions , light and heat , soil and at- mosphere , once existed where the fragile plant was pre- served . It could not have been transported thither , for its delicate texture would have ...
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... fragments brought down from the neighbouring mountains . But the changes in the earth's surface produced by the action of rivers , are exceedingly slow , and in magni- tude insignificant , compared with those which it is more ...
... fragments brought down from the neighbouring mountains . But the changes in the earth's surface produced by the action of rivers , are exceedingly slow , and in magni- tude insignificant , compared with those which it is more ...
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... fragments of rock on its surface , and traversed in every direction with fissures or chasms of awful depth - the chilly grave of many an adventurous traveller . Some lines of a modern poet well describe a glacier . " Wave upon wave ! as ...
... fragments of rock on its surface , and traversed in every direction with fissures or chasms of awful depth - the chilly grave of many an adventurous traveller . Some lines of a modern poet well describe a glacier . " Wave upon wave ! as ...
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... fragments of inaccessible rocks from the very summits of the mountains , are conveyed many miles to the verge of the glacier , whence they are pre- cipitated with vast masses of congealed snow into the valley beneath , occasioning in ...
... fragments of inaccessible rocks from the very summits of the mountains , are conveyed many miles to the verge of the glacier , whence they are pre- cipitated with vast masses of congealed snow into the valley beneath , occasioning in ...
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