Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... Sandstones , " so interesting to a Scotchman ; and he will have to bear in mind , if he belong to the coal districts of Scotland , that the " stones in the wall " there belong to much older rocks than those " New Red Sandstones " of ...
... Sandstones , " so interesting to a Scotchman ; and he will have to bear in mind , if he belong to the coal districts of Scotland , that the " stones in the wall " there belong to much older rocks than those " New Red Sandstones " of ...
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... sandstone , you would say would you not ? —that sandstone must have been here before the clay ; and however thick - even thousands of feet - it might be , that would make no difference to your judgment . If next the boring came into ...
... sandstone , you would say would you not ? —that sandstone must have been here before the clay ; and however thick - even thousands of feet - it might be , that would make no difference to your judgment . If next the boring came into ...
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... sandstone - those of which Stonehenge is built - and the " plum - pudding stones " which are sometimes found with them , have no kindred with the northern pebbles . They belong to beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles ...
... sandstone - those of which Stonehenge is built - and the " plum - pudding stones " which are sometimes found with them , have no kindred with the northern pebbles . They belong to beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles ...
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... sandstones , i.e. rocks imme- diately round Liverpool , 12 per cent . Now , does not this sample show , as far as human common sense can be depended on , that the great majority of these stones come from the Lake mountains , sixty or ...
... sandstones , i.e. rocks imme- diately round Liverpool , 12 per cent . Now , does not this sample show , as far as human common sense can be depended on , that the great majority of these stones come from the Lake mountains , sixty or ...
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... sandstone , which , with its attendant marls , covers a vast tract — and that a rich and busy one - of England . From Hartlepool and the mouth of the Tees , down through Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire ; over the manufacturing districts ...
... sandstone , which , with its attendant marls , covers a vast tract — and that a rich and busy one - of England . From Hartlepool and the mouth of the Tees , down through Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire ; over the manufacturing districts ...
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