Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Band 5Society, 1885 |
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Seite 254 - For the moving of large masses of rock, the most powerful engines without doubt which nature employs are the glaciers, those lakes or rivers of ice which are formed in the highest valleys of the Alps, and other mountains of the first order. These great masses are in perpetual motion, undermined by the influx of heat from the earth, and impelled down the declivities on which they rest by their own enormous weight, together with that of the innumerable fragments of rock with which they are loaded.
Seite 238 - Oh! I would walk A weary journey, to the furthest verge Of the big world, to kiss that good man's hand, Who, in the blaze of wisdom and of art, Preserves a lowly mind; and to his God, Feeling the sense of his own littleness, Is as a child in meek simplicity!
Seite 201 - God's great plough ; and when the ice vanished from the face of the land, it left it prepared for the hand of the husbandman. The hard surface of the rocks was ground to powder, the elements of the soil were mingled in fair proportions, granite was carried into the lime regions, lime was mingled with the more arid and unproductive granite districts, and a soil was prepared fit for the agricultural uses of man.
Seite 415 - How many years or ages this conflict between the lake and the dam continued it is quite impossible to say, but the quantity of wreckage found in the valley of the lower Ohio, and even in that of the Mississippi, below their point of junction, is sufficient to convince us that it was no short time. "The age of Great Floods" formed a striking episode in the story of the "Retreat of the Ice.
Seite 518 - For the reasons before given I think it possible that the Glacial epoch — that is to say, the epoch of extreme cold — may not have lasted longer than from 15,000 to 25,000 years, and I would for the same reasons limit the time of the melting away of the ice-sheet to from 8,000 to 10,000 years...
Seite 251 - ... pavement of the globe. Revolutions still more remote appeared in the distance of this extraordinary perspective. The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time...
Seite 529 - ... Limestone as a Source of Petroleum and Inflammable Gas in Ohio and Indiana. 80 pp. (583-662), 7 pi. Eighth An. Rep. USGS, 1886-87. PANTON, J. HOYES, MA, FGS — -Notes on the Geology of some Islands in Lake Winnipeg. 10 pp. Trans. Hist, and Sci. Soc. Manitoba, 1886. PRESTWICH, DCL, FRS, FGS, etc. — On the Correlation of the Eocene Strata in England, Belgium and France.
Seite 200 - Jersey, and which figure on the geological maps as the edge of the continental glacier, — an explanation obviously inapplicable in those western regions where they attain their greatest development. It is plain that in the north it marks the western limit of the deep water of a glacial sea, which at some periods extended much farther west, perhaps with a greater proportionate depression in going westward, and on which heavy ice from the Laurentian districts on the east was wafted southwestward...
Seite 323 - The face of places, and their forms, decay, And that is solid earth, that once was sea ; Seas, in their turn, retreating from the shore, Make solid land what ocean was before ; And far from strands are shells of fishes found, And rusty anchors...
Seite 252 - In that work, instead of finding the world represented as the result of necessity or chance, which might be looked for, if the accusations of atheism or impiety were well founded, we see everywhere the utmost attention to discover, and the utmost disposition to admire, the instances of wise and beneficent design manifested in the structure, or economy of the world.