An Introduction to Geology: Comprising the Elements of the Science in Its Present Advanced State, and All the Recent Discoveries; with an Outline of the Geology of England and WalesH. Howe, 1829 - 528 Seiten |
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Alps ancient animals appear augite Auvergne basalt bed of coal beds of limestone bones calcareous called carbon chalk Charnwood Forest coal strata coal-field colour compact composed contain covered crater crystalline crystals deposited Derbyshire diluvial distance districts dykes earth earthquakes elevated England eruptions existence extends felspar formed fossil fragments frequently freshwater genera geologists geology globe gneiss granite greywacke gypsum hills hornblende imbedded intermixed iron island lakes lava lias lime London clay lower magnesian limestone marine marle mass metallic mica mica-slate miles mineral nearly numerous observed occur ocean oolite organic remains plants Plate porphyry present quadrupeds quartz red marle red sandstone rise rivers rock-salt salt sand shale shells side sienite siliceous situations slate rocks sometimes species stone stratum structure substances subterranean supposed surface tain tertiary strata tion toadstone trachyte transition limestone transition rocks trap rocks tufa unconformable upper secondary strata valleys vast vegetable veins volcanic
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Seite 378 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 378 - An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite xliii - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Seite 226 - scenes of ruin every where appeared around me : but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to contiguous danger, by a deep rumbling sound, which every moment grew louder. The place where we stood shook most dreadfully. After some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to look for Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it had passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood.
Seite 378 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned.
Seite xi - A work conspicuous for attractiveness, for perspicuity, for a style generally vigorous and correct— often elegant and beautiful, and for an independence of spirit which carries the author straight forward to his object without any servile regards to previous systems. Mr. Bakewell's work has long been our favourite elementary treatise on Geology."— ATHENAEUM.
Seite 226 - Stromboli, though at sixty miles distance, belching forth flames in an unusual manner, and with a noise which I could distinctly hear. But my attention was quickly turned from more remote to contiguous danger.
Seite 59 - ... between them ; their entire difference, in many cases, from the rocks in the country where they lie, rounded masses and pebbles of primitive rocks being deposited in secondary and alluvial regions, and vice versa ; these and a multitude of similar facts have ever struck us as being among the most interesting of geological occurrences, and as being very inadequately accounted for by existing theories.
Seite 241 - ... the mountain began to give way and the greatest part of it actually fell in and disappeared in the earth.
Seite 20 - The manner in which the fossil organisms were conceived to have become embedded in their various matrices is interesting: We can not doubt that the animals received their existence and lived and died in an ocean full of carbonate of lime, in solution, or in mechanical suspension, or both. When they died they of course subsided to the bottom and were surrounded, as they lay, by the concreting calcareous matter; . . . the interstices were filled by the calcareous deposit, and this being more or less...