Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... Divisions representative of three independent Orders of Existences - Origin of the Wealden in England - Its great Depth and high Antiquity - The question whether the Weald Formation belongs to the Cretaceous or the Oolitic System ...
... Divisions representative of three independent Orders of Existences - Origin of the Wealden in England - Its great Depth and high Antiquity - The question whether the Weald Formation belongs to the Cretaceous or the Oolitic System ...
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... divisions of Cuvier , or some analogous system , adherence to which would be clearly defined and understood . Why should not the words class , order , type , have as invariable a meaning as genera and species , which , having an ...
... divisions of Cuvier , or some analogous system , adherence to which would be clearly defined and understood . Why should not the words class , order , type , have as invariable a meaning as genera and species , which , having an ...
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... division of the geologic formation which represents in the history of the globe the period during which mammals began to be abundant , and in which the great Cuvier won his laurels , Scotland is LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 87.
... division of the geologic formation which represents in the history of the globe the period during which mammals began to be abundant , and in which the great Cuvier won his laurels , Scotland is LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 87.
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... division to which they belong is still definitely to fix ; but some of our higher geologists are , I find , disposed to refer them to the second Tertiary or Miocene epoch , though with considerable hesitation . They belong , it is ...
... division to which they belong is still definitely to fix ; but some of our higher geologists are , I find , disposed to refer them to the second Tertiary or Miocene epoch , though with considerable hesitation . They belong , it is ...
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... divisions , but rarely indeed in a state of sufficient entireness to enable the entomologist to distinguish their species ... division of the animal kingdom . Our entomologists reckon at the present time about eleven thousand species of ...
... divisions , but rarely indeed in a state of sufficient entireness to enable the entomologist to distinguish their species ... division of the animal kingdom . Our entomologists reckon at the present time about eleven thousand species of ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains Crag Crag and Tail creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish débris deposits depth district earth elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacial glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred icebergs island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period Pleistocene polished portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
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Էջ 94 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Էջ 147 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Էջ 228 - Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Էջ 289 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Էջ 212 - This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species.
Էջ 185 - His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Էջ 230 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Էջ 107 - Then, awed to silence, they trode the strand Where furnaced pillars in order stand, All framed of the liquid burning levin, And bent like the bow that spans the heaven, Or upright ranged in horrid array, With purfle of green o'er the darksome gray.
Էջ 74 - And here awhile the Muse, High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene. Sees Caledonia, in romantic view : Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge...
Էջ 184 - Who can discover the face of his garment ? Or who can come to him with his double bridle ? Who can open the doors of his face ? His teeth are terrible round about.