 The steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and grey kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying in thickness from one to forty feet. In a small number of places the different strata of lava...  Hawaii and Its Volcanoes - Seite 169von Charles Henry Hitchcock - 1911 - 322 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1826 - 494 Seiten
...which we had descended, was formed of volcanic materials, apparently a light red, and grey kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying in thickness from one to forty feet. In a small numher of places, the different strata of lava were, also, rent in perpendicular or oblique directions,... | |
 | William Ellis - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and gray kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...connected with the action of the adjacent volcano. After walking some distance over 2c the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1827 - 524 Seiten
...steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic natter, apparently a light red and grey kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...connected with the action of the adjacent volcano. After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our... | |
 | 1827 - 854 Seiten
...steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and grey kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...or oblique directions, from the top to the bottom, cither by earthquakes, or other violent convulsions of the ground connected with the action of the... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 Seiten
...The steep which we descended, was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red, and gray kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...connected with the action of the adjacent volcano. After Hawaii, or Owygee, the largest of the Sandwich Islands, containing about 4000 square miles, and... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and gray kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...connected with the action of the adjacent volcano. After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our... | |
 | William Ellis - 1833 - 362 Seiten
...descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and gray kind of lava, vesicular, aud lying in horizontal strata, varying in thickness from...connected with the action of the adjacent volcano. After walking some distance over the sunken plain, whicli in several places sounded hollow under our... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 Seiten
...which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently of light-red and grey vesicular lava, lying in horizontal strata varying in thickness from one to forty feet. In a few places the different masses were rent in perpendicular and oblique directions, from top to bottom,... | |
 | Wilhelm Wittich - 1845 - 432 Seiten
...terminate in a ledge or plain. They are composed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red or grey kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata varying in thickness from one to forty feet. The ledge or plain at the base of this declivity consists of solid black lava; it is of irregular breadth,... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 Seiten
...steep which we had descended was formed of volcanic matter, apparently a light red and gray kind of lava, vesicular, and lying in horizontal strata, varying...top to the bottom, either by earthquakes, or other yiolent convulsions of the ground, connected with the in. u action of the adjacent volcano. After walking... | |
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