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... decay of bygone life , establish an antiquity for this world of ours vast beyond all human conception , and only to be vaguely expressed in epochs , and æons , and cycles . Summing up , then , our knowledge of the rocky crust- and this ...
... decay of bygone life , establish an antiquity for this world of ours vast beyond all human conception , and only to be vaguely expressed in epochs , and æons , and cycles . Summing up , then , our knowledge of the rocky crust- and this ...
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... decay of plants and animals ; and 5 , The Igneous , or those - like the volcano and earth- quake - connected with the manifestations of heat within the interior of our planet . Each of these agencies has its own mode of working - some ...
... decay of plants and animals ; and 5 , The Igneous , or those - like the volcano and earth- quake - connected with the manifestations of heat within the interior of our planet . Each of these agencies has its own mode of working - some ...
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... decay of a single year may add to the ac- cumulation , yet in the course of centuries the peat - growth and swamp ... decayed vegetation , and ready to be converted into coal , like the analogous accumulations of former epochs . In the ...
... decay of a single year may add to the ac- cumulation , yet in the course of centuries the peat - growth and swamp ... decayed vegetation , and ready to be converted into coal , like the analogous accumulations of former epochs . In the ...
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... decaying exuviæ of life , and once more collected into compact and rocky strata . The Igneous agents generally exert themselves with signal force and marked effects , and yet in some instances their most gigantic results are brought ...
... decaying exuviæ of life , and once more collected into compact and rocky strata . The Igneous agents generally exert themselves with signal force and marked effects , and yet in some instances their most gigantic results are brought ...
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... decay , and the younger valleys spreading out in their beauty and freshness and fertility ! " This earth , like the body of an animal , " said Hutton , " is wasted at the same time that it is repaired . It has a state of growth and ...
... decay , and the younger valleys spreading out in their beauty and freshness and fertility ! " This earth , like the body of an animal , " said Hutton , " is wasted at the same time that it is repaired . It has a state of growth and ...
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accumulations ages America ancient antiquity areas arrangement aspects beds bituminous calcareous Cambrian Carboniferous Chalk changes chemical chiefly clays climate coal coal-fields course Cretaceous Crown 8vo crustacea crystalline debris decay deposits distribution of sea drifted dry land earth's crust eocene estuaries Europe existing extinct feet fishes flora and fauna formations forms fossils Geography geologists geology glacial epoch glacier globe gradually gravel heat higher igneous incessant ironstones islands lakes latitudes Laurentian lava less lignites limestones lower mammals masses matter MESOZOIC metamorphism mineral miocene nature newer numerous occur ocean Old Red Sandstone older Oolite operations organic PALEOZOIC partly period physical plants and animals pliocene portion present recent regions reptiles rivers rock-matter rocks rocky sand schists sea and land secondary sediments shales shell-fish shells silts Silurian Sketch soil species stage stone strata stratified surface terrestrial tertiary thickness tion Triassic variety vegetable veins vital volcano vulcanic zoophytes
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