Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany, Chemistry, Comparative Anatomy, Conchology, Entomology, Palaeontology, Zoology, and Other Branches of Natural History, as are Connected with the Study of GeologyH. Washbourne, 1843 - 294 páginas |
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acid alumina angles animals appears applied to leaves augite beds belonging bivalve blow-pipe body bones botany Brongniart Buckland calcareous called calyx carbonate of lime cavities cetacea chalk clay coal colour composed conchoidal conchology consists containing copper coral corolla covered crystals Cuvier deposits discovered divided earth feet felspar FEROUS fishes flint flowers fluid formation fossil fracture genera genus Geology Germ granite green grey Haüy hornblende insects limestone Linnæus London clay lustre Lyell magnesia mammalia Mantell marine marl mass membranous metallic mica mineral miocene multivalve name given nearly numerous obtained its name occurs oolite organs oxide oxide of iron oxygen placed plants pliocene possess quartz resembling rocks sand sandstone seed shells silex silica siphuncle sometimes spar species Specific gravity stem stone strata substance sulphur surface tained teeth term applied tertiary thick tion univalve upper valves variety vegetable veins Werner zeolite
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Página 133 - smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer," "and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree,
Página 105 - say, that when God created the heavens and the earth he did more, at the time alluded to, than transform them out of previously existing materials ? Or does he ever say that there was not an interval of many ages between the first act of creation, described in the first book of Genesis, and said to have been performed
Página 50 - has been buried for countless ages in the deep and dark recesses of the earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct species, which were swept from the earth ere the formation of the transition
Página 177 - or such as excite a suspicion that they consist of stars, and which any increase of the optical power of the telescope may be expected to resolve into distinct stars ; 3d, nebulae, properly so called, in which there is no appearance whatever of stars ; which, again, have been subdivided into subordinate classes, according to their brightness and
Página 106 - clouds of vapour, the pipe or tube is emptied, and a column of steam rushing up with amazing force and a thundering noise, terminates the eruption. If stones are thrown into the crater, they are instantly ejected, and such is the explosive force, that very hard rocks are sometimes shivered by it into small pieces.
Página 189 - A planet moves in its elliptical orbit with a velocity varying every instant, in consequence of two forces, one tending to the centre of the sun, and the other in the direction of a tangent to its orbit, arising from the primitive impulse, given at the time when it was launched into space.
Página 50 - senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him ; little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of
Página 106 - noises are heard, like the distant firing of cannon, and the earth is slightly shaken. The sound then increases, and the motion becomes more violent, till at length a column of water is thrown up, with loud explosions, to the height of one or two hundred feet. After playing for a time like an artificial fountain, and