Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the ...
... ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the ...
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... ancient rock down to great angular fragments of ironstone and coal . There , as elsewhere , the great majority of the pebbles have nothing to do with the rock on which the clay happens to lie , but have come , some of them , from places ...
... ancient rock down to great angular fragments of ironstone and coal . There , as elsewhere , the great majority of the pebbles have nothing to do with the rock on which the clay happens to lie , but have come , some of them , from places ...
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... in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea - animals to colonise and breed in it . But the general appear- ance of the dried sea - bottom would be a 56 [ 11 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea - animals to colonise and breed in it . But the general appear- ance of the dried sea - bottom would be a 56 [ 11 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... ancient hard rocks , which may be seen in so many parts of these islands and of the Continent . No water power could have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a ...
... ancient hard rocks , which may be seen in so many parts of these islands and of the Continent . No water power could have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a ...
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... ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again lie on the mountain slates . It was dis- covered by the late Mr. Trimmer , now , alas ! lost to Geology . Out of that beach ...
... ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again lie on the mountain slates . It was dis- covered by the late Mr. Trimmer , now , alas ! lost to Geology . Out of that beach ...
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