Geological Stories: A Series of Autobiographies in Chronological OrderG. P. Putnam's sons, 1874 - 301 páginas |
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... is Legion ) is that called Felspar . Your eye may detect it in my mass , by its pink or flesh - colour , whilst it is so soft that you may scratch it with your finger nail . It is owing to THE STORY OF A PIECE OF GRANITE . 3.
... is Legion ) is that called Felspar . Your eye may detect it in my mass , by its pink or flesh - colour , whilst it is so soft that you may scratch it with your finger nail . It is owing to THE STORY OF A PIECE OF GRANITE . 3.
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... masses , hundreds of feet in thickness . And yet you may find transitions in these two extreme states of my family - even from the transparent crystal condition of the " Brazilian pebbles " to the coarse - grained and resinous appear ...
... masses , hundreds of feet in thickness . And yet you may find transitions in these two extreme states of my family - even from the transparent crystal condition of the " Brazilian pebbles " to the coarse - grained and resinous appear ...
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... mass cooled down . Hence it is that geologists can more or less tell from my appearance the circum- stances which attended my birth . From the pure , transparent condition I mentioned above , I pass through a great many modifications ...
... mass cooled down . Hence it is that geologists can more or less tell from my appearance the circum- stances which attended my birth . From the pure , transparent condition I mentioned above , I pass through a great many modifications ...
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... masses slowly to accumulate . This was in the deeper parts of the sea , where the water was clear , and free from muddy sediment . But my recollection goes no far- ther to any animal type . No fishes swam in the blue water ; no ...
... masses slowly to accumulate . This was in the deeper parts of the sea , where the water was clear , and free from muddy sediment . But my recollection goes no far- ther to any animal type . No fishes swam in the blue water ; no ...
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... mass took place at the same time as its deposition . A great plutonic change then occurred , and what had been sea ... masses . By " unconformability " I mean that the dip of their beds is not the same , the lower being different from ...
... mass took place at the same time as its deposition . A great plutonic change then occurred , and what had been sea ... masses . By " unconformability " I mean that the dip of their beds is not the same , the lower being different from ...
Términos y frases comunes
abundant accumulated Ammonites ancient animals appearance Arctic beds belong bottom Brachiopods Cambrian Carboniferous Chalk clay climate coal colour common condition creatures Cretaceous crustacean deposits Devonian dry land England English Chalk Eocene epoch evidence existence extinct fact feet in thickness ferns fish flint flora FORAMINIFERA forests formation formed fossil found fossilized fresh-water geological geologists Glacial gradually granite gravels Greenland grew heat huge hundred Ichthyosaurus indicate Keuper known lakes latter Laurentian Lias lignite lime limestones lived London Clay Lower marine Marl mass mineral Miocene mollusca Norwich Crag Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organic remains origin overlying PALEOZOIC peculiar period plants Pliocene portion present Red Crag Red Sandstone reptiles rivers rock-salt rocks sand sea-bottom sea-water shales shallow shells silica Silurian slates slowly solid speaking species stone story strata Suffolk surface swarmed teeth thousand feet tion trees Triassic Trilobites upheaval Upper vegetation whilst
Pasajes populares
Página 238 - 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 146 - Contemplate all this work of Time, The giant labouring in his youth ; Nor dream of human love and truth, As dying Nature's earth and lime ; But trust that those we call the dead Are breathers of an ampler day For ever nobler ends. They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, 10 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man...
Página 167 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 58 - In weather-stains or crusted o'er by Nature With her first growths, detaching by the stroke A chip or splinter — to resolve his doubts; And, with that ready answer satisfied, The substance classes by some barbarous name, And hurries on...
Página 146 - They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man; Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime, The herald of a higher race, And of himself in higher place, If so he type this work of time Within himself...
Página 14 - God worketh slowly : and a thousand years He takes to lift His hand off. Layer on layer He made earth, fashioned it and hardened it Into the great, bright, useful thing it is ; Its seas, life-crowded, and soul-hallowed lands He girded with the girdle of the sun, That...
Página 207 - O'er all the bees, with murmuring music, flew From bell to bell, to sip the treasured dew ; While insect myriads, in the solar gleams, Glanced to and fro, like intermingling beams ; So fresh, so pure, the woods, the sky, the air, It seemed a place where angels might repair, And tune their harps beneath those tranquil shades, To morning songs, or moonlight serenades.
Página 37 - By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a hand invisible was rearing A new creation in the secret deep. Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them ; Hence, what omnipotence alone could do. Worms did.
Página 207 - Gay lights and shadows twinkled on the ground ; Up the tall stems luxuriant creepers run To hang their silver blossoms in the sun ; Deep velvet verdure clad the turf beneath, Where trodden flowers their richest odours breathe ; O'er all the bees, with murmuring music, flew From bell to bell...
Página 37 - To adamant, by their petrific touch; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock.