Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... mountain - ranges , continents , oceans , whole tribes and worlds of plants and animals . And yet it is not so much for the vastness and grandeur of those scenes of the distant past , to which the science of geology introduces us , that ...
... mountain - ranges , continents , oceans , whole tribes and worlds of plants and animals . And yet it is not so much for the vastness and grandeur of those scenes of the distant past , to which the science of geology introduces us , that ...
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... mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because no more 32 ...
... mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because no more 32 ...
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... mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is coated , just underneath the turf . What has broken them up but frost ? Look again , as stronger proof , at the talus of broken stones - screes , as they call them in ...
... mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is coated , just underneath the turf . What has broken them up but frost ? Look again , as stronger proof , at the talus of broken stones - screes , as they call them in ...
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... mountains and Scarborough , from rounded pebbles of most 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 ...
... mountains and Scarborough , from rounded pebbles of most 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 ...
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... mountains ) , 37 per cent . Silurian grits ( the common stones of the Lake mountains deposited by water ) , 43 per cent . Ironstone , 1 per cent . Carboniferous limestone , 5 per cent . Permian or Triassic sandstones , i.e. rocks imme ...
... mountains ) , 37 per cent . Silurian grits ( the common stones of the Lake mountains deposited by water ) , 43 per cent . Ironstone , 1 per cent . Carboniferous limestone , 5 per cent . Permian or Triassic sandstones , i.e. rocks imme ...
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