| William Denton - 1872 - 348 Seiten
...often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, arid extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa; as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids,... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1872 - 636 Seiten
...the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as in Algeria or Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia, by Bagdad, to the mouths of the Indus. It occurs... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1874 - 646 Seiten
...above the *ea. It occurs also in the Pyrenees, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the North of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. In Egypt, the quarries in this rock near Cairo furnished the Pharoahs with building-stone for the Pyramids.1... | |
| Arthur Mangin - 1875 - 442 Seiten
...often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, an'd extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa — as, for example,...it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia, by Bagdad, to the mouth of the Jordan. It enters... | |
| Geologists' Association - 1876 - 654 Seiten
...above the sea. It occurs also in the Pyrenees, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the North of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. In Egypt, the quarries in this rock near Cairo furnished the Pharaohs with building-stone for the Pyramids.*... | |
| Geologists' Association - 1876 - 614 Seiten
...the sea. It occurs also in the Pyrenees, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in fall force in the North of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. In Egypt, the quarries in this rock near Cairo furnished the Pharaohs with building-stone for the Pyramids.*... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1877 - 448 Seiten
...framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It occurs in Algeria and Morocco, and has been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the mouths of the Indus. It has been... | |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1879 - 540 Seiten
...the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as in Algeria or Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia, by Bagdad, to the mouths of the Indus. It occurs... | |
| William Denton - 1882 - 360 Seiten
...attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is ia full force in the north of Africa; as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids,... | |
| Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1882 - 238 Seiten
...there is one kind of limestone (nummulite) which is found in the Swiss Alps, in Algeria and Morocco, in Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the pyramids, and in Asia Minor; stretching across Persia by Bagdad to the mouths of the Indus ; in... | |
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