Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology, Band 1J. Murray, 1875 |
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ages alluded alluvial Alps ancient animals aphelion arctic beds bottom called carbonic acid Carboniferous causes century chalk changes channel cliffs climate coast cold cone continued crater Cretaceous delta deposits depth Devonian distance earth earthquakes Eocene epoch eruption Europe excentricity existing extinct feet flood flows formation formed former fossil genera geographical Geol geologist geology Glacial glaciers globe gneiss gradually granite gulf heat height hemisphere Herculaneum inches inhabitants Ischia islands Journ lake land lapilli latitudes lava marine mass matter miles mineral Miocene Monte Nuovo mountains nature northern observed ocean Oolite organic remains origin period plants Pliocene Pompeii present quadrupeds quantity regions reptiles rise river rocks sand scoriæ sediment seen shells shore Silurian snow species springs stones strata stream subterranean supposed surface temperature Tertiary theory thickness tides tion travertin tuff valley Vesuvius volcanic whole
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Seite 160 - Methought, I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
Seite 79 - 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 509 - But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery, the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.
Seite 7 - There are creations also, and destructions of worlds innumerable : the Being, supremely exalted, performs all this with as much ease as if in sport, again and again for the sake of conferring happiness...
Seite 77 - ... 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 517 - If once in half a century an equal amount of change were produced suddenly by the momentary shock of an earthquake, history would be filled with records of such wonderful revolutions of the earth's surface ; but if the conversion of high land into deep sea be gradual, it excites only local attention.
Seite 609 - Puzzuoli quitted their habitations in terror, covered with the muddy and black shower which continued the whole day in that country, — flying from death, but with death painted in their countenances. Some with their children in their arms, some with sacks full of their goods, others leading an ass, loaded with their frightened family, towards Naples...
Seite 30 - I found the sea in the same place, and on its shores were a party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land had been covered by the waters. ' Is this a question,' said they, ' for a man like you ? This spot has always been what it is now.
Seite 92 - ... would appear alike superhuman in magnitude. He who should study the monuments of the natural world under the influence of a similar infatuation, must draw a no less exaggerated picture of the energy and violence of causes, and must experience the same insurmountable difficulty in reconciling the former and present state of nature. If we could behold...
Seite 96 - This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change of human affairs ; and even in our larger experience of history, the imagination, is accustomed by a perpetual scries of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions.