The Testimony of the Rocks, Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedT. Constable, 1857 - 500 pages |
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... geologic ages was separated by a great chaotic gap from our own . My labours at the time as a practical geologist had been very much restricted to the Paleozoic and Secondary rocks , more especially to the Old Red and Carboniferous ...
... geologic ages was separated by a great chaotic gap from our own . My labours at the time as a practical geologist had been very much restricted to the Paleozoic and Secondary rocks , more especially to the Old Red and Carboniferous ...
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... geologic periods . It bears nearly the same sort of relation to the physical history of the past that biography does to the ... geologist . It enumerates and de- scribes all the organic existences of all the extinct creations , all the ...
... geologic periods . It bears nearly the same sort of relation to the physical history of the past that biography does to the ... geologist . It enumerates and de- scribes all the organic existences of all the extinct creations , all the ...
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... geologic history , - we cannot perhaps do better , in entering upon our subject , than to glance briefly at the ... geologists who have disco- vered the one had no hand in assisting the naturalists and phytologists who framed the other ...
... geologic history , - we cannot perhaps do better , in entering upon our subject , than to glance briefly at the ... geologists who have disco- vered the one had no hand in assisting the naturalists and phytologists who framed the other ...
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... geologic arrangement as developed in the suc- cessive stages of the earth's history . Silurian . Fig . 1. * Thallogens . Old Red . Carboniferous . Permian . Triassic . Oolitic . Cretaceous . Tertiary . Acrogens . Gymnogens ...
... geologic arrangement as developed in the suc- cessive stages of the earth's history . Silurian . Fig . 1. * Thallogens . Old Red . Carboniferous . Permian . Triassic . Oolitic . Cretaceous . Tertiary . Acrogens . Gymnogens ...
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... geologists , the first or introductory class which occurs in the ascending order is this humble thallo- genic class ... geologic scale , with , so far as has yet been ascertained , the place of their first appearance in creation ; while ...
... geologists , the first or introductory class which occurs in the ascending order is this humble thallo- genic class ... geologic scale , with , so far as has yet been ascertained , the place of their first appearance in creation ; while ...
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