Principles of Geology; Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology, Band 2D. Appleton and Company, 1868 - 834 Seiten |
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Principles of Geology; Or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ..., Band 1 Charles Lyell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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America ancient animals and plants appear beds Calabria calcareous called carbonic acid carboniferous causes century Cetacea changes channel cliffs climate coast cone continued coral crater delta deposits depth distance earth earthquakes elevation Eocene eruption Etna Etym existing feet fissures flood flowed formations formed fossil Geol geological geologist globe gneiss gradually granite Gulf heat height inhabitants Ischia island Journ lakes land lapilli latitudes lava limestone marine mass matter miles mineral Monte Nuovo mountains nature observed ocean Oolite organic origin period Phil plain present quadrupeds quantity reef regions remains rise river rocks sand scoriæ sediment seen shells shores Sicily soil solid South America species springs stone strata stream subsidence subterranean supposed surface temperature terrestrial tertiary testacea theory thickness thousand thrown tides tion trachyte tract Trans travertin trees tuff valley vegetable Vesuvius volcanic waves whole zoophytes
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Seite 135 - A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea...
Seite 519 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Seite 405 - The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Seite 616 - Reviewing the facts here given, one is astonished at the amount of creative force, if such an expression may be used, displayed on these small, barren, and rocky islands ; and still more so, at its diverse yet analogous action on points so near each other. I have said that the Galapagos Archipelago might be called a satellite attached to America, but it should rather be called a group of satellites, physically similar, organically distinct, yet intimately related to each other, and all related in...
Seite 781 - ... stones. After this, the calcareous sand lies undisturbed, and offers to the seeds of trees and plants, cast upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers from other countries and islands, find here, at length, a...
Seite 61 - Meanwhile the charm of first discovery is our own, and as we explore this magnificent field of inquiry, the sentiment of a great historian of our times may continually be present to our minds, that " he who calls what has vanished back again into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating.
Seite 656 - ... and I am told that the wild bee is seldom to be met with at any great distance from the frontier. They have been the heralds of civilization...
Seite 53 - ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.
Seite 39 - The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land — the waters of the heavens, reducing all to a level, will at last deliver the whole land over to the sea, and the sea successively prevailing over the land will leave dry new continents like those •which we inhabit.
Seite 59 - To multiply and record observations, and patiently to await the result at some future period, was the object proposed by them ; and it was their favourite maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalisations.