Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... series . It is geology : that is , the science which explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical ...
... series . It is geology : that is , the science which explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical ...
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... series of papers , therefore , on Sir Charles Lyell's method . I have begun by trying to teach a little about the part of the earth's crust which lies nearest us , which we see most often ; namely , the soil ; intending , if my readers ...
... series of papers , therefore , on Sir Charles Lyell's method . I have begun by trying to teach a little about the part of the earth's crust which lies nearest us , which we see most often ; namely , the soil ; intending , if my readers ...
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... series of limestone beds , which , from the abundance of fossils which they contain , go by the name of Muschelkalk . A long epoch must therefore have intervened between the laying down of the Bunter and of the Keuper . And we have a ...
... series of limestone beds , which , from the abundance of fossils which they contain , go by the name of Muschelkalk . A long epoch must therefore have intervened between the laying down of the Bunter and of the Keuper . And we have a ...
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... series , and therefore nearer . There , too , are found principally the bones of that extraordinary flying lizard , the Pterodactyle , which had wings formed out of its fore - legs , on somewhat the same plan as those of a bat , but ...
... series , and therefore nearer . There , too , are found principally the bones of that extraordinary flying lizard , the Pterodactyle , which had wings formed out of its fore - legs , on somewhat the same plan as those of a bat , but ...
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... series of beds . But only above the chalk ( as far as we yet know ) do we begin to find species identical with those living now . This in itself would prove a vast lapse of time . We shall have a further proof of that vast lapse when we ...
... series of beds . But only above the chalk ( as far as we yet know ) do we begin to find species identical with those living now . This in itself would prove a vast lapse of time . We shall have a further proof of that vast lapse when we ...
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