The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... rocks crumble into granules ; and the matter constituting these oxides and granules , by an additional series of operations , is still farther decomposed , till every vestige of their late character is lost , and the elementary ...
... rocks crumble into granules ; and the matter constituting these oxides and granules , by an additional series of operations , is still farther decomposed , till every vestige of their late character is lost , and the elementary ...
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... rocks seem to be pro- duced that enter into the substance of the earth's solid crust . The lower- most of these , as ... rock consists ; and others by nothing more than the law of aggregation or homogeneous attraction in its simplest ...
... rocks seem to be pro- duced that enter into the substance of the earth's solid crust . The lower- most of these , as ... rock consists ; and others by nothing more than the law of aggregation or homogeneous attraction in its simplest ...
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... rocks are numerous , and they appear to be laid one over the other , so that a rock of one kind of stone is covered by a rock of another kind , and this second by a third kind , and so on , in many instances , for a very considerable ...
... rocks are numerous , and they appear to be laid one over the other , so that a rock of one kind of stone is covered by a rock of another kind , and this second by a third kind , and so on , in many instances , for a very considerable ...
Página 67
... rock that is always lowest , or nearest the centre , uniformly supporting a second kind , and this second kind a third , and so on . Now , though the different kinds or layers of rocks do not in reality extend round the earth in this ...
... rock that is always lowest , or nearest the centre , uniformly supporting a second kind , and this second kind a third , and so on . Now , though the different kinds or layers of rocks do not in reality extend round the earth in this ...
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... rocks by some early commotion . Gray - wacke , which is a concrete term , denoting a conglomerate rock of a peculiar kind , having a basis of clay- slate , and being studded or otherwise intersected with portions of quartz , fel- spar ...
... rocks by some early commotion . Gray - wacke , which is a concrete term , denoting a conglomerate rock of a peculiar kind , having a basis of clay- slate , and being studded or otherwise intersected with portions of quartz , fel- spar ...
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