The Subterranean WorldLongmans, Green, and Company, 1871 - 522 páginas |
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... considerable local changes effected by their means , have indeed produced no marked alteration in the great outlines of the sea and land ; but when we consider that their in- fluence has extended over countless ages , we can no longer ...
... considerable local changes effected by their means , have indeed produced no marked alteration in the great outlines of the sea and land ; but when we consider that their in- fluence has extended over countless ages , we can no longer ...
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... considerable extent in the Lower Lias . This beautiful Crinoid , with its innumerable tentacular arms , appears to have been frequently attached to the drift wood of the Liassic sea , like the floating barnacles of the present day . In ...
... considerable extent in the Lower Lias . This beautiful Crinoid , with its innumerable tentacular arms , appears to have been frequently attached to the drift wood of the Liassic sea , like the floating barnacles of the present day . In ...
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... considerable distance from the earth's surface . If he ascends in a balloon , he soon reaches the limits where the rarefied atmosphere renders breathing impossible ; a few thousand feet limit his efforts to pierce the earth's crust ...
... considerable distance from the earth's surface . If he ascends in a balloon , he soon reaches the limits where the rarefied atmosphere renders breathing impossible ; a few thousand feet limit his efforts to pierce the earth's crust ...
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... considerable depths below the surface . Most springs in the temperate zone , without being warm in a remarkable degree , still possess a higher temperature than the average warmth of the air in the locality where they gush forth , while ...
... considerable depths below the surface . Most springs in the temperate zone , without being warm in a remarkable degree , still possess a higher temperature than the average warmth of the air in the locality where they gush forth , while ...
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... considerable depths . These thermal sources are confined to no climate , for in the cold land of the Tschuktschi , where the soil must be perpetually frozen to a depth of several hundred feet , boiling water is found to gush forth , as ...
... considerable depths . These thermal sources are confined to no climate , for in the cold land of the Tschuktschi , where the soil must be perpetually frozen to a depth of several hundred feet , boiling water is found to gush forth , as ...
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