Introductory Text-book of GeologyW. Blackwood & Sons, 1854 - 194페이지 |
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abundant accumulations agency appear argillaceous arrangement basalt beds bituminous boulders building-stone calcareous carboniferous chalk chemical chiefly clay-slate clays coal coal-measures colours compact composed composition conglomerates coral-reefs corals crust crustacea crystalline deposits districts drift earth encrinites England eocene epoch estuaries felspar fishes flagstones formation forms fossils frequent fresh-water geography geologists geology globe gneiss granite gravel greenstone grits groups hornblende igneous rocks interstratified islands KEITH JOHNSTON lakes laminated lava layers lias lignite lime limestone lower magnesian marine marls masses metamorphic mica mineral mountain limestone numerous occur ocean old red sandstone oolite origin peat-mosses peculiar period Permian Physical Atlas plants and animals pleistocene POST-TERTIARY present quartz regions remains of plants reptiles rivers rocky sand seams sedimentary shales shells silt silurian slates slaty strata stratified rocks structure surface termed tertiary texture thick tions trachyte trap trap-tuffs trappean Triassic trilobites upheavals upper valleys varieties vegetable volcanic wealden zoophytes
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12 페이지 - They are as superior to all School Atlases within our knowledge, as "were the larger works of the same Author in advance of those that preceded them.
10 페이지 - PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, illustrating, in a Series of Original Designs, the Elementary Facts of Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology, and Natural History.
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12 페이지 - ... like flies walking over a great hill. All that can be seen from the top of the highest mountain to the bottom of the deepest mine is not more in comparison than the mere varnish on the outside of a school-globe.
108 페이지 - Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the mouths of the Indus. It occurs not only in Cutch, but in the mountain ranges which separate Scinde from Persia, and which form the passes leading to Caboul ; and it has been followed still farther eastward into India, as far as eastern Bengal and the frontiers of China.
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69 페이지 - These fishes seem to have thronged the waters of the period, and their remains are often found in masses, as if they had been suddenly entombed in living shoals by the sediment which now contains them." I beg leave to quote somewhat at length the picturesque language of Hugh Miller )• regarding these rocks as found in Scotland. "The river bull-head, when attacked by an enemy, or immediately as it feels the hook in its jaws, erects its two spines at nearly right angles with the plates of the head...
8 페이지 - This Atlas ought to have a place in every good library. . . . "We know of no work containing such copious and exact information as to all the physical circumstances of the earth on which we live.
13 페이지 - ... changes, which commenced with the dawn of creation, and are continuing on into the future. " Had the exterior crust of the earth been subjected to no modifying causes, the world would have presented the same appearance now as at the time of its creation. The distribution of land and sea would have remained the same ; there would have been the same surface arrangement of hill, valley, and plain, and the same unvarying aspects of animal and vegetable existence.