Town GeologyStrahan & Company, 1873 - 239 páginas |
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... of oysters lying as they grew , fresh or brackish water - shells standing as they lived , bits of lignite ( fossil wood half turned to coal ) , and ( as in Kates- grove pits at Reading ) leaves of trees . Proof 112 TOWN GEOLOGY .
... of oysters lying as they grew , fresh or brackish water - shells standing as they lived , bits of lignite ( fossil wood half turned to coal ) , and ( as in Kates- grove pits at Reading ) leaves of trees . Proof 112 TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... lignite , or wood coal ; then gradations be- tween lignite and common or bituminous coal ; and then gradations between common coal and culm , or anthracite , such as is found in South Wales . Have you not a right to say , " These are ...
... lignite , or wood coal ; then gradations be- tween lignite and common or bituminous coal ; and then gradations between common coal and culm , or anthracite , such as is found in South Wales . Have you not a right to say , " These are ...
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... lignite , and at last into coal , while their insides would be silted up with mud and sand ? Thus a core or pillar of hard sandstone would be formed , which might do to the collier of the future what they are too apt to do now in the ...
... lignite , and at last into coal , while their insides would be silted up with mud and sand ? Thus a core or pillar of hard sandstone would be formed , which might do to the collier of the future what they are too apt to do now in the ...
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... lignite , and last , it may be , coal , with the stems of killed trees standing up out of it into the new mud and sand - beds above it , just as the Sigillariæ and other stems stand up in the coal - beds both of Britain and of Nova ...
... lignite , and last , it may be , coal , with the stems of killed trees standing up out of it into the new mud and sand - beds above it , just as the Sigillariæ and other stems stand up in the coal - beds both of Britain and of Nova ...
Página 153
... lignite , or wood - coal , by parting with its oxygen , in the shape of carbonic acid gas , or choke - damp ; and then common , or bituminous coal , by parting with its hydrogen , chiefly in the form of THE COAL IN THE FIRE . 153.
... lignite , or wood - coal , by parting with its oxygen , in the shape of carbonic acid gas , or choke - damp ; and then common , or bituminous coal , by parting with its hydrogen , chiefly in the form of THE COAL IN THE FIRE . 153.
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Página xix - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 59 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 138 - I think, be solved, by attending to what is now taking place in deltas. The dense growth of reeds and herbage which encompasses the margins of forest-covered swamps in the valley and delta of the Mississippi is such that the fluviatile waters, in passing through them, are filtered and made to clear themselves entirely before they reach the areas in which vegetable matter may accumulate for centuries, forming coal if the climate be favourable. There is no possibility of the least intermixture of earthy...
Página liii - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Página xlviii - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Página xxxi - We must acquire something of that .industrious habit of mind which the study of Natural Science gives. The art of seeing, the art of knowing what you see, the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see, the art of connecting facts together in your own mind in chains of cause and effect, and that accurately, patiently, calmly, without prejudice, vanity, or temper.
Referencias a este libro
Handbook of Geology in Civil Engineering Robert Ferguson Legget,Paul Frederick Karrow Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |