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... deposit and conservation . And sea strata , when hoisted up by heat in the form of slate , sandstone , limestone , & c . , form museums of sea life of an antiquity ... deposit , instead of the place of that deposit ? That is vi PREFACE .
... deposit and conservation . And sea strata , when hoisted up by heat in the form of slate , sandstone , limestone , & c . , form museums of sea life of an antiquity ... deposit , instead of the place of that deposit ? That is vi PREFACE .
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... deposit of a certain place such a life only existed , we set it down that in the period of that deposit that life only existed . Hence such errors as The age of reptiles , ' The diluvial period , The boulder period , ' The drift period ...
... deposit of a certain place such a life only existed , we set it down that in the period of that deposit that life only existed . Hence such errors as The age of reptiles , ' The diluvial period , The boulder period , ' The drift period ...
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... deposit . 143 CHAPTER X. LYELL ON NEW RAVINES , AND ON THE GANGES . Formation of new ravines 147 ' Sunk roads ' the effect of aqueous denudation 148 Lyell on the Ganges 151 Rain has laid the whole surface of the earth in ridge and ...
... deposit . 143 CHAPTER X. LYELL ON NEW RAVINES , AND ON THE GANGES . Formation of new ravines 147 ' Sunk roads ' the effect of aqueous denudation 148 Lyell on the Ganges 151 Rain has laid the whole surface of the earth in ridge and ...
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... deposit on dry land ' These modern beds contain extinct animals 201 • 202 • . 205 The same floods which form the drift beds stock them • with land animals Mammalia and man might have existed in the Silurian 206 period for what we know ...
... deposit on dry land ' These modern beds contain extinct animals 201 • 202 • . 205 The same floods which form the drift beds stock them • with land animals Mammalia and man might have existed in the Silurian 206 period for what we know ...
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... deposit of land forward in it , the sea may thus be said to assist in prolonging valleys . 6 Bottle off the sea ' and all estuaries , and their valleys will be deepened ; for the tidal part of each river will be a torrent on the brow of ...
... deposit of land forward in it , the sea may thus be said to assist in prolonging valleys . 6 Bottle off the sea ' and all estuaries , and their valleys will be deepened ; for the tidal part of each river will be a torrent on the brow of ...
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