Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... limestone or clay replete with the exuvia of successive generations of marine or terrestrial animals , interrupted too by several periods of convulsion , during which the existing races were in many cases destroyed , and new ones ...
... limestone or clay replete with the exuvia of successive generations of marine or terrestrial animals , interrupted too by several periods of convulsion , during which the existing races were in many cases destroyed , and new ones ...
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... limestone , which may be divided into four alternations of alluvial detritus and basaltic depos- its . Among the beds there are three which contain organic remains ; two belong to the third of the ancient alluvions , that which ...
... limestone , which may be divided into four alternations of alluvial detritus and basaltic depos- its . Among the beds there are three which contain organic remains ; two belong to the third of the ancient alluvions , that which ...
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... limestone , iron , chalk , salt , and several other important deposits . The theory thus fails again to fill the office for which it is devised , and on a vast scale . Grant them . all that it can yield , exhaust its utmost resources ...
... limestone , iron , chalk , salt , and several other important deposits . The theory thus fails again to fill the office for which it is devised , and on a vast scale . Grant them . all that it can yield , exhaust its utmost resources ...
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... limestone in this group along the line of section of fifty feet ; adding to these twenty - four in the lower shale and sandstone group , and three in the lower coal group , and we have in the whole extent of the coal measures embraced ...
... limestone in this group along the line of section of fifty feet ; adding to these twenty - four in the lower shale and sandstone group , and three in the lower coal group , and we have in the whole extent of the coal measures embraced ...
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... limestone . " - Rodgers's Report on the Geology of Virginia , 1839 , p . 93 . The inadequacy of their theory to account for this important portion of the strata , though seen and acknowledged by geologists , has not led them either to ...
... limestone . " - Rodgers's Report on the Geology of Virginia , 1839 , p . 93 . The inadequacy of their theory to account for this important portion of the strata , though seen and acknowledged by geologists , has not led them either to ...
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