Volcanoes and EarthquakesF.A. Stokes Company, 1908 - 369 Seiten |
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active volcanoes appearance ashes basalt boiling CALABRIAN EARTHQUAKE caldera caused clouds coast column cone continued cooling Cotopaxi covered crater deep depth distance earth earth's crust earthquake shocks earthquake waves east erup eruption of Krakatoa escape Etna explosive eruption extinct volcano feet in height fissures flow force formed fumaroles geyser hardened Hawaii heard highly heated huge Iceland immense interior Java Jökul Jorullo Kilauea known Krakatoa lake land lapilli lava lava streams Lyell Martinique mass materials melted molten rock moon moon's mud volcanoes nearly nebular hypothesis neighborhood noises occurred ocean Pacific Pelée plain planets probably produced quake quantities reached region rises rivers rotation seen side situated slopes sounds South America square miles stone Stromboli suddenly Sumbawa summit surface temperature thrown tion vapor Vesuvius violent volcanic bombs volcanic crater volcanic dust volcanic eruptions volcanic islands volcanic mountains
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Seite 279 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from «> the LORD out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Seite 278 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Seite 279 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Seite 278 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Seite 277 - Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou earnest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Seite 343 - ... of Atlantis, which, as I was saying, once had an extent greater than that of Libya and Asia; and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to the ocean. The progress of the history will unfold the various tribes of barbarians and Hellenes which then existed, as they successively appear on the scene; but I must begin by describing first of all the Athenians, as they were in that day, and their enemies who fought with them; and I shall...
Seite 345 - Heracles, as far as the country which is still called the region of Gades in that part of the world, he gave the name which in the Hellenic language is Eumelus, in the language of the country which is named after him, Gadeirus.
Seite 341 - Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent...
Seite 277 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Seite 354 - ... gentleness and wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another.