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... character of a landscape . A strong gale , for instance , will level thousands of trees in its pathway , turning a tract of forest or woodland into a bare space , which may become a quaking morass , until perhaps changed into arable ...
... character of a landscape . A strong gale , for instance , will level thousands of trees in its pathway , turning a tract of forest or woodland into a bare space , which may become a quaking morass , until perhaps changed into arable ...
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... character of these natural chronicles , let us for a moment consider the subsoil beneath cities that have been inhabited for many centuries . In London , for example , when excavations are made for drainage , building , or other ...
... character of these natural chronicles , let us for a moment consider the subsoil beneath cities that have been inhabited for many centuries . In London , for example , when excavations are made for drainage , building , or other ...
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... characters upon the very framework of the land , he would feel the want of one of the great sources of interest in the study of the present face of nature . We naturally connect all modern ... character of the life 6 CHAP . INTRODUCTORY.
... characters upon the very framework of the land , he would feel the want of one of the great sources of interest in the study of the present face of nature . We naturally connect all modern ... character of the life 6 CHAP . INTRODUCTORY.
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Archibald Geikie. By may have been the general character of the life of the time . searching the similar records of earlier ages the geologist has brought to light many profoundly interesting vestiges of vegetation and of animal life ...
Archibald Geikie. By may have been the general character of the life of the time . searching the similar records of earlier ages the geologist has brought to light many profoundly interesting vestiges of vegetation and of animal life ...
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... character and progress of this history have been . In a science which embraces so vast a range as Geology , the multiplicity of facts to be examined and remembered may seem at first to be almost overwhelming . But a selection of the ...
... character and progress of this history have been . In a science which embraces so vast a range as Geology , the multiplicity of facts to be examined and remembered may seem at first to be almost overwhelming . But a selection of the ...
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abundant accumulated acid Ammonites ancient Assistant Master beds BOOK bottom Brachiopods calcareous calcite Cambrian Cambridge carbonate of lime Carboniferous Chapter chiefly clay College containing corals Cretaceous crinoids crystalline crystals decay deposits detritus Devonian earth earth's crust Edited ELEMENTARY Eocene eruptive Europe evidence example extinct fauna Fcap feet fissures fossils genera GEOGRAPHY geological history glacier globe gradually granite gravel GREEK ground Illustrated Jurassic kinds known lakes land lava layers limestone living lower marine marls mass materials Mesozoic mineral Miocene molten mountains natural occur Old Red Sandstone organic remains original Palæozoic period Permian plants and animals Pliocene present preserved Prof Professor quartz Red Sandstone regions revised rivers rocks sand schists sediment sedimentary sedimentary rocks shales sheets shells siliceous Silurian soil solid sometimes species stone strata structure substance surface terrestrial Tertiary thick trace Triassic upper various vegetation volcanic
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