The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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John Mason Good. The nuclei thus arising may sometimes be double or triple , or still more complicated ; and whenever this occurs , the nebulosity will be broken into different nebulæ , or smaller nebulous clouds ; and if some of them be ...
John Mason Good. The nuclei thus arising may sometimes be double or triple , or still more complicated ; and whenever this occurs , the nebulosity will be broken into different nebulæ , or smaller nebulous clouds ; and if some of them be ...
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... sometimes simple , or consisting of a single mineral substance , as limestone , serpentine , or quartz ; but more frequently compound , or constructed of two or more simple materials variously intermixed and united ; as granite , which ...
... sometimes simple , or consisting of a single mineral substance , as limestone , serpentine , or quartz ; but more frequently compound , or constructed of two or more simple materials variously intermixed and united ; as granite , which ...
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... sometimes even the granite itself , the lowermost rock of all , is left bare , and not pressed down or coated by a deposite of any other kind of rock and so of the rest . Wherever this deficiency takes place , the rock thus left at ...
... sometimes even the granite itself , the lowermost rock of all , is left bare , and not pressed down or coated by a deposite of any other kind of rock and so of the rest . Wherever this deficiency takes place , the rock thus left at ...
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... sometimes contain ores , which also existed in the neighbouring mountains , and have been carried down by the agency of rain , air , or the elastic gases . The ores principally discovered in such situations are those of gold and tin ...
... sometimes contain ores , which also existed in the neighbouring mountains , and have been carried down by the agency of rain , air , or the elastic gases . The ores principally discovered in such situations are those of gold and tin ...
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... Sometimes they are partially or altogether empty ; and in this case they are real fissures , and are so denominated ; but generally they are filled with matter more or less simple , and more or less different from the rock through which ...
... Sometimes they are partially or altogether empty ; and in this case they are real fissures , and are so denominated ; but generally they are filled with matter more or less simple , and more or less different from the rock through which ...
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