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 and General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, & Company, 1836 - 372 sidor |
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... ocean , thus leaving a por- tion of the earth dry land , preparatory to the creation of man , and for his habitation . He imagined , also , that the temperature of the earth was continually diminishing , and that the level of the sea ...
... ocean , thus leaving a por- tion of the earth dry land , preparatory to the creation of man , and for his habitation . He imagined , also , that the temperature of the earth was continually diminishing , and that the level of the sea ...
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... ocean once enveloped the whole earth , covering the high- est mountains , and hence the appearance of shells far above the level of the sea . The water afterwards ran into caverns which opened into the earth , and thus the ocean ...
... ocean once enveloped the whole earth , covering the high- est mountains , and hence the appearance of shells far above the level of the sea . The water afterwards ran into caverns which opened into the earth , and thus the ocean ...
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... decompose the waters of the ocean , in order to prepare its elements to produce earthquakes and volcanic eruptions . The metallic veins in the strata of the earth , are caries or abscesses of the 14 GEOLOGICAL THEORIES . Kepler's,
... decompose the waters of the ocean , in order to prepare its elements to produce earthquakes and volcanic eruptions . The metallic veins in the strata of the earth , are caries or abscesses of the 14 GEOLOGICAL THEORIES . Kepler's,
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... ocean . Here they have been consolidated , partly by time , and partly by the pressure of the water , but chiefly by the effects of subterranean heat . By the same cause , more powerfully exerted , that is , by the expansive power of ...
... ocean . Here they have been consolidated , partly by time , and partly by the pressure of the water , but chiefly by the effects of subterranean heat . By the same cause , more powerfully exerted , that is , by the expansive power of ...
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... ocean is a little more than 1. The specific gravity of the earth's surface including the water , therefore cannot be much above 2. But the mean densi- ty of the whole earth being 5 , is more than double that of its surface , and hence ...
... ocean is a little more than 1. The specific gravity of the earth's surface including the water , therefore cannot be much above 2. But the mean densi- ty of the whole earth being 5 , is more than double that of its surface , and hence ...
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Sida 305 - 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 302 - 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 307 - 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.
Sida 352 - God said, Let there be light: let there be a firmament: let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place: let the earth bring forth: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven.
Sida 319 - 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...
Sida 326 - And God said, 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 : and it was so.
Sida 214 - On the keeper putting a spar of wood two inches in diameter into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as a miner's crushing mill, or the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the metal foundries.
Sida 325 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Sida 353 - 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 300 - Let the water under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.