Quarterly Review, Volumes 106-107J. Murray., 1859 |
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... rock , " whose very pride had an element of good in it . He braved the ridicule of the cynics , who could not understand his heart - felt reverence for the rough old philosopher of Fleet - street , and consecrated his life to the ...
... rock , " whose very pride had an element of good in it . He braved the ridicule of the cynics , who could not understand his heart - felt reverence for the rough old philosopher of Fleet - street , and consecrated his life to the ...
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... rocks on the crust of the globe were such as had consolidat- ed from fusion , -in other words , were igneous rocks ; while , as water could not exist till after these were formed , and does not in itself contain the constituents of any ...
... rocks on the crust of the globe were such as had consolidat- ed from fusion , -in other words , were igneous rocks ; while , as water could not exist till after these were formed , and does not in itself contain the constituents of any ...
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... rocks which contain them . In these ways water is always active in transporting the materials of which rocks are composed from higher to lower levels , and finally depositing those materials on the beds of lakes and seas , either as a ...
... rocks which contain them . In these ways water is always active in transporting the materials of which rocks are composed from higher to lower levels , and finally depositing those materials on the beds of lakes and seas , either as a ...
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... rocks , we find them exactly such as we should expect , assuming that they were deposited by the methods now described . The strata formed in each of the periods mentioned in our table swell out in some part of the world or other to a ...
... rocks , we find them exactly such as we should expect , assuming that they were deposited by the methods now described . The strata formed in each of the periods mentioned in our table swell out in some part of the world or other to a ...
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... rock have been thrust in duce the elevation of continents or moun- among the beds of the aqueous rocks be- tain - chains . If the forces now acting un - low , without having reached the surface . der Lapland continue at the same rate ...
... rock have been thrust in duce the elevation of continents or moun- among the beds of the aqueous rocks be- tain - chains . If the forces now acting un - low , without having reached the surface . der Lapland continue at the same rate ...
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