The First One Hundred Years of American GeologyYale University Press, 1924 - 773 Seiten |
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American Journal appeared argillite Azoic basins beds bowlders CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Cambrian Carboniferous coal colored considered contained Cretaceous crust Dana deposits described Devonian drift earth Edward Hitchcock elevation Emmons Eocene Eozoon evidence expedition fact feet formation fossils geological map geological survey geologist glacial glaciers gneiss granite Hayden Hitchcock Hudson Hudson River igneous J. J. Stevenson James Hall Journal of Science Lake Lake Superior land later lignite limestone Lower Silurian mass matter miles mineral mineralogy Miocene Mississippi Missouri mountains nature Newberry North noted observations ocean origin paleontology Paleozoic paper period Permian phenomena plates portion position Potsdam present Prof Professor published quartz Red sandstone referred regarded region River rocks Rogers sand sedimentary shales slate species strata surface Taconic Tertiary theory thought tion Triassic UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA uplift Upper Valley views volcanic volume western wrote York
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Seite 82 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Seite 61 - And when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened...
Seite 471 - In whatever direction a body moves on the surface of the earth, there is a force arising from the earth's rotation, which deflects it to the right, in the northern hemisphere, but to the left, in the southern.
Seite 644 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Seite 590 - Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe? Not on the vulgar mass Called "work...
Seite 652 - It seems, therefore, on the whole most probable that the sun has not illuminated the earth for 100,000,000 years, and almost certain that he has not done so for 500,000,000 years. As for the future, we may say, with equal certainty, that inhabitants of the earth cannot continue to enjoy the light and heat essential to their life, for many million years longer, unless sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation.
Seite 17 - And if this animal was indeed carnivorous, which I believe cannot be doubted, though we may as philosophers regret it, as men we cannot but thank Heaven that its whole generation is probably extinct.
Seite 96 - A Sketch of the Geology, Mineralogy and Scenery of the Regions contiguous to the River Connecticut ; with a Geological Map and Drawings of Organic Remains, etc.
Seite 19 - the investigation of the Mineral and Fossil bodies which compose the Fabric of the Globe, and more especially for the Natural and Chemical History of the Minerals and Fossils of the United States.
Seite 647 - The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, — no prospect of an end"§.