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... vital dissolve and destroy in one area , so they recombine and build up in another . There is nothing so harmonious as this incessant round of mutation , nothing so marvellous as the variety it produces , and yet nothing so certain as ...
... vital dissolve and destroy in one area , so they recombine and build up in another . There is nothing so harmonious as this incessant round of mutation , nothing so marvellous as the variety it produces , and yet nothing so certain as ...
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... vital ; and what was appropriated for a while by the living organ- isms is restored again to the mineral world when vitality has ceased its requirements . Everything in this universe is indissolubly woven into a network of ...
... vital ; and what was appropriated for a while by the living organ- isms is restored again to the mineral world when vitality has ceased its requirements . Everything in this universe is indissolubly woven into a network of ...
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... by the last generation ; and it holds out the encouragement that another generation , by following in the right path , will arrive at a fuller in- sight into the physical and vital aspects of this primary 92 THE PRIMARY PERIODS .
... by the last generation ; and it holds out the encouragement that another generation , by following in the right path , will arrive at a fuller in- sight into the physical and vital aspects of this primary 92 THE PRIMARY PERIODS .
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David Page. sight into the physical and vital aspects of this primary period . The last of the primary systems which form the subjects of our Sketch is the SILURIAN , so named by Sir Roderick Murchison , because well displayed and first ...
David Page. sight into the physical and vital aspects of this primary period . The last of the primary systems which form the subjects of our Sketch is the SILURIAN , so named by Sir Roderick Murchison , because well displayed and first ...
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... vital development , the eluci- dation of which has conferred on modern geology its high- est interest and most enduring attraction . Nor is it Geology alone that has benefited by the dis- coveries of the palæontologist . Botany and ...
... vital development , the eluci- dation of which has conferred on modern geology its high- est interest and most enduring attraction . Nor is it Geology alone that has benefited by the dis- coveries of the palæontologist . Botany 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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