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... geologist . The doctrines of Werner were then so completely in the ascendant that it was con- sidered little better than heresy to dispute any of them . Yet it appeared to me , from the knowledge of igneous rocks I had acquired in Italy ...
... geologist . The doctrines of Werner were then so completely in the ascendant that it was con- sidered little better than heresy to dispute any of them . Yet it appeared to me , from the knowledge of igneous rocks I had acquired in Italy ...
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... geologist . The doctrines of Werner were then so completely in the ascendant that it was con- sidered little better than heresy to dispute any of them . Yet it appeared to me , from the knowledge of igneous rocks I had acquired in Italy ...
... geologist . The doctrines of Werner were then so completely in the ascendant that it was con- sidered little better than heresy to dispute any of them . Yet it appeared to me , from the knowledge of igneous rocks I had acquired in Italy ...
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... Geologists have hitherto usually had recourse , for the explanation of these changes , to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes , cataclysms , or general revolutions . As the idea imparted by the terms ...
... Geologists have hitherto usually had recourse , for the explanation of these changes , to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes , cataclysms , or general revolutions . As the idea imparted by the terms ...
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... in passing , that this latter branch of inquiry has not yet , perhaps , been sufficiently pursued in detail , even by Sir Charles Lyell , or any other geologist . still to appear cascading over the lips of craters of PREFACE . ix.
... in passing , that this latter branch of inquiry has not yet , perhaps , been sufficiently pursued in detail , even by Sir Charles Lyell , or any other geologist . still to appear cascading over the lips of craters of PREFACE . ix.
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... geologists have also since that time paid more attention to this most interesting portion of their country than they had previously given to it . And I have been gratified to find many of the most trust- worthy among them put forward ...
... geologists have also since that time paid more attention to this most interesting portion of their country than they had previously given to it . And I have been gratified to find many of the most trust- worthy among them put forward ...
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Allier ancient appears Ardèche augite Auvergne basin bed of basalt breccia calcareous calcareous peperino Cantal cellular Central France chain of puys channel character Clermont clinkstone colour columnar compact conglomerate considerable contains covered crater Crown 8vo current of lava deposits distance district domite dyke east Edition elevation eruption evidently excavation Fcap feet felspar fissures flowed formed fragments freshwater formation geologists Gergovia gneiss granitic platform Graveneire Haute Loire heights hill Illustrations lacustrine lake lava lava-current Le Puy Limagne limestone marls mass matter Mezen miles Mont Dore Monts Dôme mountain neighbouring numerous observed occupied olivine Pariou peperino plain Plate plateau points Pomel Pont Portrait Post 8vo prisms probably Puy de Dôme recent remarkable ridge rise river rock sandstone scoriæ side Sioule slope strata stream of lava substance summit surface tertiary thick tion trachyte tuff valley vent Vivarais volcanic cones Vols Woodcuts
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