Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science, Part 1 |
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... Geological Society , for the presentation to me of a copious selection of his Notes on the Geology of our island , of which considerable use has been made . A small type and a thin paper have been preferred Preliminary Notice. ...
... Geological Society , for the presentation to me of a copious selection of his Notes on the Geology of our island , of which considerable use has been made . A small type and a thin paper have been preferred Preliminary Notice. ...
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... geological phænomena of our own island ; the full develope- ment of these forms the principal object of the work , but to avoid partial and incomplete views we have subjoined , wherever it was possible , concise accounts of the ...
... geological phænomena of our own island ; the full develope- ment of these forms the principal object of the work , but to avoid partial and incomplete views we have subjoined , wherever it was possible , concise accounts of the ...
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... geological phoenomena which require to be presented under proper heads in a connected view , in order to place in the full and clear light of their real evidence the inferences resulting from them ; to the partial and uncombined views ...
... geological phoenomena which require to be presented under proper heads in a connected view , in order to place in the full and clear light of their real evidence the inferences resulting from them ; to the partial and uncombined views ...
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... Geology and the physical allusions of the inspired writings . SINCE the present volume , offering itself only in the ... geological treatise to illustrate , the most simple and natural method will be to trace those phænomena in the order ...
... Geology and the physical allusions of the inspired writings . SINCE the present volume , offering itself only in the ... geological treatise to illustrate , the most simple and natural method will be to trace those phænomena in the order ...
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... Geology being the knowledge of the Earth's structure as far as it lies open to our observation , the fundamental point ... geological student in the nature of those materials as considered in them- selves , and of chemistry to enable him ...
... Geology being the knowledge of the Earth's structure as far as it lies open to our observation , the fundamental point ... geological student in the nature of those materials as considered in them- selves , and of chemistry to enable him ...
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Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, with an Introductory ... William Phillips,William Daniel Conybeare No preview available - 2015 |
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afford Ammonites appear argillaceous basalt basin beneath calcareous carboniferous limestone chain chalk marle character cliff clunch coal-field coal-measures coast colour conglomerate considerable consists containing coral rag Cornbrash deposits Derbyshire described Dorsetshire dyke earth east elevated escarpment exhibits extending feet ferruginous flints formation fossils fragments G. T. vol geological gravel green sand grey hills horizontal imbedded inclined indurated inferior oolite instance iron sand Isle of Wight junction Kimmeridge clay lias lime London clay lower marle masses miles millstone-grit mineral mountain nearly nodules north-east numerous observed occasionally occupied occur old red sandstone organic remains Oxfordshire phænomena plastic clay present Purbeck pyrites quarries range red marle ridge rise river rock shale shells side slate Slate-clay south-east south-west species stone strata stratum subjacent summit surface thickness thin toadstone traced tract transition traversing upper beds valley varieties vegetable veins W. D. Conybeare Weald Yorkshire
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Page lviii - The grand fact of an universal deluge at no very remote period is proved on grounds so decisive and incontrovertible, that had we never heard of such an event from Scripture or any other Authority, Geology of itself must have called in the assistance of some such catastrophe to explain the phenomena of diluvial action...
Page 463 - Munster coal-district occupies a considerable portion of the counties of Limerick and Kerry, and a large part of the county of Cork. It is by much the most extensive in Ireland ; but as yet there is not sufficient information respecting the number, extent, or thickness of the beds of coal it may contain. " Coal and culm have been raised for near a century in the neighbourhood of Kanturk, in the county of Cork.
Page xxxvii - After this, the calcareous sand lies undisturbed, and offers to the seeds of trees and plants, cast upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers from other countries and islands, find here, at length, a restingplace after their long wanderings ; with these come some small animals, such as lizards and insects, as the first inhabitants.
Page 464 - The Connaught coal-district stands next in order of value and importance to the Leinster and Munster, and possibly may be found to deserve the first place when its subterranean treasures shall be explored. At present nothing is known, except that the outer edges of several beds of coal have been observed, but they have not been traced to any distance, so that their extent is by no means ascertained. The coal is of the bituminous species. This coal is particularly adapted to the purposes of iron-works,...
Page 465 - On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous...
Page lxi - The concessions, if they may be so called, of the believers in Revelation on this point, have been amply remunerated by the sublime discoveries as to the prospective wisdom of the Creator, which have been gradually unfolded by the progressive improvements in astronomical knowledge. We may trust with the same confidence as to any future results from geology...
Page 465 - About the year 1770," says he, "the miners, in pushing forward an adit toward the bed of coal, at an unexplored part of the Ballycastle cliff, unexpectedly broke through the rock into a narrow passage, so much contracted and choked up with various drippings and deposits on its sides and bottom, as rendered it impossible for any of the workmen to force through, that they might examine it farther. Two lads were, therefore, made to creep in with candles...
Page lii - ... thus separating these waters from their native salt, (which, though of the highest utility to preserve the purity of the sea, renders them unfit for the support of terrestrial animals or vegetables,) and transmitting them in genial showers to scatter fertility over the earth, and maintain the never-failing reservoirs of those springs and rivers by which they are again returned to mix with their parent ocean; — in all these circumstances, we find such evidence of...
Page 376 - ... little to the south of Hartley, or about three miles north of Shields, and running westward crosses the Tyne at Lemington, about four miles west of Newcastle Bridge. In some places it is only a few inches wide, but in Montagu colliery it is 22 yards wide, and is filled with hard and soft sandstone. From the southern side of this dyke two others branch off, one to the south-east and the other to the south-west The latter, called from its breadth the 70-yard dyke, is also filled with hard and soft...
Page lii - In the whole machinery also of springs and rivers, and the apparatus that is kept in action for their duration, through the instrumentality of a system of curiously constructed hills and valleys, receiving their supply occasionally from the rains of heaven, and treasuring it up in their everlasting storehouses to be dispensed perpetually by thousands of never-failing fountains ; we see a provision not less striking or less important.