The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... - First ascertained in Sweden - Examples of Contemporaneous Upheaval and Depression in France and England - Probable Causes of the Phenomenon . 34 CHAPTER V. SUBTERRANEAN WATERS AND ARTESIAN WELLS . Subterranean Distribution.
... - First ascertained in Sweden - Examples of Contemporaneous Upheaval and Depression in France and England - Probable Causes of the Phenomenon . 34 CHAPTER V. SUBTERRANEAN WATERS AND ARTESIAN WELLS . Subterranean Distribution.
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... England - Great Number of Earthquakes - Vertical and Undulatory Shocks - Warnings of Earthquakes - Sounds attending Earthquakes - Remark- able Displacements of Objects - Extent and Force of Seismic Wave Motion- Effects of Earthquakes on ...
... England - Great Number of Earthquakes - Vertical and Undulatory Shocks - Warnings of Earthquakes - Sounds attending Earthquakes - Remark- able Displacements of Objects - Extent and Force of Seismic Wave Motion- Effects of Earthquakes on ...
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... England , in Italy and Spain , in Northern Asia as well as in North America , between the latitudes of 40 ° and 75 ° , the bones of the large extinct Pachyderms have been found , and become more and more abundant as we approach the ice ...
... England , in Italy and Spain , in Northern Asia as well as in North America , between the latitudes of 40 ° and 75 ° , the bones of the large extinct Pachyderms have been found , and become more and more abundant as we approach the ice ...
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... England - Probable Causes of the Phenomenon . WH HILE the sea and the atmospheric ocean are subject to perpetual fluctuations , and the poet justly compares the uncertain tenure of human prosperity with the restless wave or the ...
... England - Probable Causes of the Phenomenon . WH HILE the sea and the atmospheric ocean are subject to perpetual fluctuations , and the poet justly compares the uncertain tenure of human prosperity with the restless wave or the ...
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... England , in Cornwall , Devon , and Somerset , submarine forests , consisting of the species still flourishing in the neighbourhood , are of such frequent occurrence that , according to Sir Henry de la Beche , ' it is difficult not to ...
... England , in Cornwall , Devon , and Somerset , submarine forests , consisting of the species still flourishing in the neighbourhood , are of such frequent occurrence that , according to Sir Henry de la Beche , ' it is difficult not to ...
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