Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district ...
... trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district ...
Page 43
... trees which grow above ; and they dissolve the cement of the rock by chemical action , especially if the cement be lime or iron . You may see this for yourselves , again and again . You may see how the root of a tree , penetrating the ...
... trees which grow above ; and they dissolve the cement of the rock by chemical action , especially if the cement be lime or iron . You may see this for yourselves , again and again . You may see how the root of a tree , penetrating the ...
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... tree has been found among them . Now how is this to be explained ? Either we must say that the climate of Greenland was then so much warmer than now , that it had sum- mers probably as hot as those of New York ; or we must say that ...
... tree has been found among them . Now how is this to be explained ? Either we must say that the climate of Greenland was then so much warmer than now , that it had sum- mers probably as hot as those of New York ; or we must say that ...
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... trees allied to the modern sago - palms are found as they grew in the soil , which , with them , has been covered up in layers of freshwater shale and lime- stone . A tropic forest has plainly sunk beneath a lagoon ; and that lagoon ...
... trees allied to the modern sago - palms are found as they grew in the soil , which , with them , has been covered up in layers of freshwater shale and lime- stone . A tropic forest has plainly sunk beneath a lagoon ; and that lagoon ...
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... trees . Proof enough , one would say , that the chalk had been raised till part of it at least became dry land , and carried vegetation . And yet we have not done . There is another world to tell of yet . For these beds ( known as the ...
... trees . Proof enough , one would say , that the chalk had been raised till part of it at least became dry land , and carried vegetation . And yet we have not done . There is another world to tell of yet . For these beds ( known as the ...
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