 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 Seiten
...Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea.t 4. Marshes have become dry ground. 5. Dry lands have been changed into stagnant pools. 6. During... | |
 | William Rhind - 1838 - 230 Seiten
...sea, and sea has been changed into land, while marine shells are found far distant from the deep. That valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea ; that marshes have been drained, and dry land converted into stagnant pools. That during earthquakes... | |
 | British geology - 1850 - 332 Seiten
...the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running waters, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. 4....channels, and have been reborn elsewhere ; as the Erasenus in Greece, and the Mysus in Asia. 7. The waters of some rivers formerly sweet have become... | |
 | Joseph Baylee - 1857 - 222 Seiten
...Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. * * * * * * 10. Land has been submerged by earthquakes. 11. Plains have been upheaved into hills, by... | |
 | F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 Seiten
...Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. Marshes have been dry ground. Dry lands have been changed into stagnant pools. Kivers have deserted... | |
 | William J. Barbee - 1861 - 432 Seiten
...changes which are continually taking place upon the surface of the earth. He noticed, for example, that valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the seas, — that land has been submerged by earthquakes — that peninsulas have been divided from the... | |
 | William Denton - 1872 - 348 Seiten
...Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. Marshes have become dry ground. Dry lands have been changed into stagnant pools. Volcanic vents shift... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 Seiten
...Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea.f 4. Marshes have become dry ground. 5. Dry lands have been changed into stagnant pools. 6. During... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1876 - 532 Seiten
...converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. 4. Islands have been joined to the mainland by the growth of deltas and-new deposits, as in the case of... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 Seiten
...converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep. 3. Valleys have been excavated by running water, and floods have washed down hills into the sea. 4. Islands have been joined to the mainland by the growth of deltas and new deposits, as in the case of... | |
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The illustrations are thus consecutively adduced. 1. Solid land has been converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills. 
