Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, Volume 4James Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons., 1867 |
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... position which they ought to have taken had they been scooped out by the pressure and onward motion of the extinct glaciers ; " ( 2 ) that lakes of the first magnitude do not occur " in several areas where they ought to exist if the ...
... position which they ought to have taken had they been scooped out by the pressure and onward motion of the extinct glaciers ; " ( 2 ) that lakes of the first magnitude do not occur " in several areas where they ought to exist if the ...
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... position than this on the hills to the west of the spot where the basalt is seen , for the latter is found only at a certain elevation , being bounded both above and below by the granite of the country . Judging from these facts , which ...
... position than this on the hills to the west of the spot where the basalt is seen , for the latter is found only at a certain elevation , being bounded both above and below by the granite of the country . Judging from these facts , which ...
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... position , with regard to the sides and bottom of the valley , shows it to be an addition - something put there - and having no relation to the proper contours of the surface . Higher up the valley is a small but wonderfully perfect ...
... position , with regard to the sides and bottom of the valley , shows it to be an addition - something put there - and having no relation to the proper contours of the surface . Higher up the valley is a small but wonderfully perfect ...
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... position the grooves and striæ on them are not always parallel to each other . It is this kind of material that contributes largely to form the drift , and in some localities almost every boulder and pebble is more or less marked . On ...
... position the grooves and striæ on them are not always parallel to each other . It is this kind of material that contributes largely to form the drift , and in some localities almost every boulder and pebble is more or less marked . On ...
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... positions where neither simple gravitation nor the action of floods of water , nor the shocks of earthquakes could have ... position was exactly such as might be produced if it had been deposited by a grounded iceberg , but hardly by any ...
... positions where neither simple gravitation nor the action of floods of water , nor the shocks of earthquakes could have ... position was exactly such as might be produced if it had been deposited by a grounded iceberg , but hardly by any ...
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