Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation, כרך 2J. Kay, jun. & brother, 1837 - 546 עמודים |
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ages alluvium altered ancient animals and plants appear aqueous argillaceous Auvergne basalt beds bones breccia Calanna calcareous causes chalk clay cliffs coast cone considerable containing coral crag crater denudation deposits depth dikes distinct district earth earthquakes elevation Eocene epoch eruptions escarpment Etna extinct feet flints formed fossil fossil shells France freshwater Geol geological geologist globe gneiss granite gravel green-sand groups height hills hypogene igneous imbedded inhabited insects island Isle lacustrine lakes land lava limestone loess marine marl mass miles mineral Miocene mountains Newer Pliocene observed occur ocean older oolite organic remains origin Paris basin pebbles period Pliocene plutonic quadrupeds recent reefs regions rise rivers sand sandstone schist scoriæ secondary rocks sedimentary seen sometimes species strata stratified Subapennine supposed surface terrestrial tertiary formations tertiary strata testacea thickness tion trachytic Trans tuff Val di Noto valley vegetable Weald
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עמוד 253 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend...
עמוד 254 - Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.
עמוד 62 - ... behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
עמוד 443 - It is not to be expected that we should be able to find tests for conditional convergence as simple and general as those of §§ 173 et seq.
עמוד 389 - Had there been any record of their eruptions in the time of Pliny or Sidonius Apollinaris, the one would scarcely have omitted to make mention of it in his Natural History, nor the other to introduce some allusion to it among the descriptions of this his native province.
עמוד 187 - It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities of the past, than patiently to explore the realities of the present ; and having invented theories under the influence of such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test their validity by the criterion of their accordance with the ordinary operations of nature. On the contrary, the claims of each new hypothesis to credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those...
עמוד 505 - We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power.
עמוד 115 - ... of many years. In June, 1747, the body of a woman was found six feet deep, in a peat-moor in the Isle of Axholm, in Lincolnshire. The antique sandals on her feet afforded evidence of her having been buried there for many ages; yet her nails, hair, and skin, are described as having shown hardly any marks of decay.
עמוד 18 - Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed. And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on.; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
עמוד 214 - ... mentioned. It is evident that where such accidents occur the want of continuity in the series may become indefinitely great, and that the monuments which follow next in succession will by no means be equidistant from each other in point of .time. If this train of reasoning be admitted, the occasional distinctness of the fossil remains, in formations immediately in contact, would be a necessary consequence of the existing laws of sedimentary deposition and subterranean movement, accompanied by...