Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science, Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods : Designed for the Use of Schools and General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, & Company, 1837 - 384 pàgines |
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Pàgina 22
... rise out of a second chaos , which will follow the blessed millenium . " s was called , and is known to the present day as the ed Theory , " and as absurd , and utterly void of all tion as it appears at the present time , it was receiv ...
... rise out of a second chaos , which will follow the blessed millenium . " s was called , and is known to the present day as the ed Theory , " and as absurd , and utterly void of all tion as it appears at the present time , it was receiv ...
Pàgina 33
... rise above the water , and the reefs and deep water , which exist alternately , below it . The sounding mariner not only detects this unevenness of e surface , but also the steep acclivities of its d the gradual risings of its sand ...
... rise above the water , and the reefs and deep water , which exist alternately , below it . The sounding mariner not only detects this unevenness of e surface , but also the steep acclivities of its d the gradual risings of its sand ...
Pàgina 42
... rise perpendicular- t or ten feet , it would lay under water the adjacent ntry of Upper Canada on the west , and part of the of New - York on the east . The river where it is about twenty - five feet deep , and three quarters of wide ...
... rise perpendicular- t or ten feet , it would lay under water the adjacent ntry of Upper Canada on the west , and part of the of New - York on the east . The river where it is about twenty - five feet deep , and three quarters of wide ...
Pàgina 43
... rise out nto which this enormous cascade is projected , st the shale beds , so that their disintregration and the superincumbent projecting limestone ithout a foundation falls from time to time in ky masses . When these enormous ...
... rise out nto which this enormous cascade is projected , st the shale beds , so that their disintregration and the superincumbent projecting limestone ithout a foundation falls from time to time in ky masses . When these enormous ...
Pàgina 54
... rise from among volcanic rocks , and hold quantities of silex in solution . As the waters de- rom the fountain , they deposite their silex in the f what is termed silicious sinter , which may be red as answering to the travertine , or ...
... rise from among volcanic rocks , and hold quantities of silex in solution . As the waters de- rom the fountain , they deposite their silex in the f what is termed silicious sinter , which may be red as answering to the travertine , or ...
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Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Visualització completa - 1841 |
Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Visualització completa - 1841 |
Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Visualització completa - 1838 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 341 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Pàgina 318 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Pàgina 328 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pàgina 321 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Pàgina 323 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.
Pàgina 368 - God said, Let there be light: let there be a firmament: let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place: let the earth bring forth: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven.
Pàgina 335 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Pàgina 140 - ... processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones.
Pàgina 369 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Pàgina 99 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth...