Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science. Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods. Designed for the Use of Schools of General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, 1841 - 384 sidor |
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... feet . Lat . Height in feet . 0 ° 15,207 45 ° 7,671 5 15,095 50 6,334 10 14,761 55 5,034 15 14,220 60 3,818 20 13,478 65 2,722 25 12,557 70 1,778 30 11,484 75 1,016 35 10,287 80 457 40 9,001 85 117 From this table , we learn that there ...
... feet . Lat . Height in feet . 0 ° 15,207 45 ° 7,671 5 15,095 50 6,334 10 14,761 55 5,034 15 14,220 60 3,818 20 13,478 65 2,722 25 12,557 70 1,778 30 11,484 75 1,016 35 10,287 80 457 40 9,001 85 117 From this table , we learn that there ...
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... feet below the present surface of its banks . In estimating the transporting power of water , we are apt to forget its buoyancy , and on which indeed its power of moving heavy substances , such as rocks , in a great mea sure depends ...
... feet below the present surface of its banks . In estimating the transporting power of water , we are apt to forget its buoyancy , and on which indeed its power of moving heavy substances , such as rocks , in a great mea sure depends ...
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... feet . On flowing out of the upper lake , the river is almost on a level with its banks , so that if it should rise perpendicular- ly eight or ten feet , it would lay under water the adjacent flat country of Upper Canada on the west ...
... feet . On flowing out of the upper lake , the river is almost on a level with its banks , so that if it should rise perpendicular- ly eight or ten feet , it would lay under water the adjacent flat country of Upper Canada on the west ...
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... feet , but is much narrower to- wards Queenstown . The kind of rock through which it passes consists of limestone and shale , the latter a dark coloured shelly form- ation , 80 feet thick , lying under the limestone . The limestone is 70 ...
... feet , but is much narrower to- wards Queenstown . The kind of rock through which it passes consists of limestone and shale , the latter a dark coloured shelly form- ation , 80 feet thick , lying under the limestone . The limestone is 70 ...
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... feet ; below which is a bed of hard lime- stone about 90 feet in thickness , stretching nearly in a horizontal direction over the whole country , and forming the bed of the river above the falls , as do the inferior shales below . The ...
... feet ; below which is a bed of hard lime- stone about 90 feet in thickness , stretching nearly in a horizontal direction over the whole country , and forming the bed of the river above the falls , as do the inferior shales below . The ...
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Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
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Sida 365 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Sida 337 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Sida 314 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Sida 331 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Sida 324 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Sida 317 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Sida 99 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Sida 100 - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Sida 323 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Sida 319 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.