The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - 481 páginas |
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Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie. LELAND STANFORD JVNIOR VNIVERSITY 554.1 Đ´ 312 SCENERY OF SCOTLAND THE SCENERY OF SCOTLAND. The Branner Geological Library.
Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie. LELAND STANFORD JVNIOR VNIVERSITY 554.1 Đ´ 312 SCENERY OF SCOTLAND THE SCENERY OF SCOTLAND. The Branner Geological Library.
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... GEOLOGY BY ARCHIBALD GEIKIE , LL.D. , F.R.S. DIRECTOR - GENERAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ; FORMERLY MURCHISON PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH , AND DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL ...
... GEOLOGY BY ARCHIBALD GEIKIE , LL.D. , F.R.S. DIRECTOR - GENERAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ; FORMERLY MURCHISON PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH , AND DIRECTOR OF THE GEOLOGICAL ...
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... geologists towards questions of topo- graphy . The views which , in concert with my col- leagues in the Geological ... geological knowledge . For this recognition it is a pleasure to admit that they are largely indebted to the powerful ...
... geologists towards questions of topo- graphy . The views which , in concert with my col- leagues in the Geological ... geological knowledge . For this recognition it is a pleasure to admit that they are largely indebted to the powerful ...
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... Geological Map represents , as far as one on so small a scale can do so , the present state of our knowledge of the general geology of the country . To my colleague , Mr. B. N. Peach , I am indebted for the Section No. I.on the Map ...
... Geological Map represents , as far as one on so small a scale can do so , the present state of our knowledge of the general geology of the country . To my colleague , Mr. B. N. Peach , I am indebted for the Section No. I.on the Map ...
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... geological periods , has been to the author of these pages the delightful occupation of years . The writing of this volume has thus gone on side by side with daily labour in the field , amid all the changes of scene and surroundings ...
... geological periods , has been to the author of these pages the delightful occupation of years . The writing of this volume has thus gone on side by side with daily labour in the field , amid all the changes of scene and surroundings ...
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Ayrshire basalt basin beds boulder-clay boulders Caithness Carboniferous cliffs Clyde coast coast-line conglomerate conspicuous corries crags crest deep denudation deposits descend district drainage dykes east erosion escarpments feet Firth Firth of Clyde frosts geological structure Glacial glaciers Glen gneiss granite greywacke height high grounds Highlands hills hollow ice-sheet ice-worn island lake land landscape limestone Loch Loch Fyne Lomond Lower Old Red Lowlands marked mass Midland Valley miles moraines Moray Firth mounds mountains narrow northern Ochil Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone once peat Pentland Hills Permian plain precipices present quartzite railway raised beach ravine region ridges rise river rocky runs sand scenery schists Scotland Scottish sea-lochs seen shores side Silurian Skye slopes smooth Southern Uplands stone strata stream striæ striking sub-aërial summit surface Sutherland table-land terrace traced tract volcanic rocks waste watershed western wide worn
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Página 374 - 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 7 - Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.‎
Página 316 - Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling ; one abode, no more...‎
Página 72 - ... acclivity to a distance almost incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet.‎
Página 161 - Inscribed, as with the silence of the thought, Upon its bleak and visionary sides, The history of many a winter storm, Or obscure records of the path of fire.‎
Página 11 - If, indeed, a river consisted of a single stream without branches, running in a straight valley, it might be supposed that some great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened at once the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean; but, when the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at...‎
Página 244 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?‎
Página 59 - This massive structure, rising 112 feet above the sea-level, 'is literally buried in foam and spray to the very top during ground swells when there is no wind.' Experiments were made there from the middle of September 1844 to the end of March 1845, and the greatest recorded pressure was 3013 pounds on the square foot.‎
Página 59 - It is certain, however, that within a recent period the sea has made such an impression upon the sands of Barrey, on the northern side of the Tay, that the light-houses at the entrance of...‎