Elements of Geology: Intended for the Use of StudentsG. P. Putnam, 1854 - 334 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abundant agency alluvial alluvium America ancient animals appear basaltic beds belong bones calcareous called carbonate of lime carboniferous chalk clay coal coast color consists contain corals craters cretaceous crust deposits dikes drift earth elephant elevated England Eocene eruption Europe exhibits existing extensive extinct fauna feet thick feldspar fishes formation fossil fossiliferous fragments fresh-water genera genus geologists Geology gneiss granite heat hornblende hundred feet hyænas igneous rocks inches islands lakes land lava Lias lignite limestone living marine marls mass mastodon miles mineral mountains numerous occur ocean Old Red Old Red Sandstone Oolite organic remains oxide of iron period phenomena plants portion present day quadrupeds quartz recent Red Sandstone reptiles resembling river salt sand secondary shales shells silica Silurian skeletons slate soils sometimes species square miles stone strata stratified rocks structure surface Tertiary therion thousand feet tion trap unstratified valley vegetable veins volcanic Wealden
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 294 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Seite 289 - Shall it any longer then be said, that a science, which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion ? Some few there still may be, whom timidity or prejudice or want of opportunity allow not to examine its evidence ; who are alarmed by the novelty, or surprised by the extent and magnitude of the views which Geology forces on their attention, and who would rather have kept closed...
Seite 166 - ... now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life ; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians.
Seite 166 - The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds Trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life...
Seite 221 - Phlegraean fields of Italy or Sicily which displays in greater perfection the peculiar features of a country desolated by volcanic phenomena. It is true that the cones thrown up around are partially wooded and in general covered with herbage ; but the sides of some are still naked ; and the interior of their broken craters rugged, black, and scorified, as well as the rocky floods of lava with which they have loaded the plain, have a freshness of aspect such as the products of fire alone could have...
Seite 36 - ... the quantity of heat discharged over the Atlantic from "the waters of the Gulf Stream in a winter's day would be sufficient to raise the whole column of atmosphere that rests upon France and the British Islands from the freezing point to summer heat.
Seite 292 - We have thus seen it placed beyond the possibility of a doubt, that it is the manner of the Scriptures, and most copiously in their earliest written parts, to speak of the DEITY, his nature, his perfections, his purposes, and his operations, in language borrowed from the bodily and mental constitution of man, and from those opinions concerning the works of God in the natural world, which were generally received by the people to whom the blessing of revelation was granted.
Seite 183 - It is a most interesting thought, that while millions of men, who have striven hard to transmit some trace of their existence to future generations^ have sunk into utter oblivion, the simple footsteps of animals that existed thousands, nay, tens of thousands, of years ago, should remain as fresh and distinct as if yesterday impressed, even though nearly every other vestige of their existence has vanished. Nay, still more strange is it, that even the pattering of a shower at that distant period, should...
Seite 154 - ... representatives of one great Class in the Articulated division of the Animal Kingdom. We do not find this instrument passing onwards, as it were, through a series of experimental changes, from more simple into more complex forms; it was created at the very first, in the fulness of perfect adaptation to the uses and condition of the class of creatures, to which this kind of eye has ever been, and is still appropriate.
Seite 3 - For whilst the Earth weighs more than five and a half times as much as a globe of water of the same bulk, Mercury...