The World Before the DelugeAppleton, 1866 - 448 Seiten |
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Alps Ammonites ancient world animals appearance argillaceous banks basaltic basin beds belonging bones brachiopodes calcareous carbonic carboniferous caverns centre chalk clay coal composed cone conifers containing cooling covered crater cretaceous crustaceans Cuvier débris deposits Devonian dicotyledonous earth elephant England eocene epoch eruptions existence extended feet felspar ferns fishes flora forests formation fossil France genera geological geologists gigantic glacier globe gneiss granite herbaceous hyænas Ichthyosaurus immense island Jurassic lava Lepidodendrons lime limestone living lower Lyell marine marl mass mineral miocene mollusks mountains natural occupied oolite organic period Permian plants pliocene porphyry present primitive red sandstone remains represented reptiles resembling rivers rocks round saliferous sand Saurians says schists shells Silurian skeleton soil solid sometimes species stone strata surface syenite teeth temperature terrestrial crust tertiary thickness tion traces trachytic trees Trilobites trunks upheaval upper valley vapour vast vegetation volcanoes Vosges zoophytes
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Seite 432 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Seite 206 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Seite 432 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Seite 432 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Seite 432 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 366 - Without doubt several hundred thousand animals thus perished in the river; their bodies, when putrid, were seen floating down the stream ; and many in all probability were deposited in the estuary of the Plata. All the small rivers became highly saline, and this caused the death of vast numbers in particular spots ; for when an animal drinks of such water it does not recover.
Seite 202 - That it was aquatic is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture; its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land ; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water, presenting a striking contrast to the organization which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
Seite 432 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Seite 244 - If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato. The story of the submergence of an ancient continent, however fabulous in history, must have been true again and again as a geological event.