A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred HistoryLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - 621 pàgines |
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Pàgina ii
... Rock Formations , Crust of the globe , formed from six explosive elements , Structure of primitive mountains shown by a ... Rocks , • Mystical transition from inorganic inertia to organic life , . Tabular representation of Mineral Strata ...
... Rock Formations , Crust of the globe , formed from six explosive elements , Structure of primitive mountains shown by a ... Rocks , • Mystical transition from inorganic inertia to organic life , . Tabular representation of Mineral Strata ...
Pàgina xxviii
... rocks , were formed , it is said , at the bottom of the Huttonian sea , by the same process as the calcareous and other secondary strata that are replete with shells . Whence do these organic ruins come , and why are they absent in the ...
... rocks , were formed , it is said , at the bottom of the Huttonian sea , by the same process as the calcareous and other secondary strata that are replete with shells . Whence do these organic ruins come , and why are they absent in the ...
Pàgina xxxi
... rocks on which all the others repose , are also those which constitute the most elevated summits ; those which form the greater part of the most prominent points of the globe , with the exception of the volcanic mountains . Over and ...
... rocks on which all the others repose , are also those which constitute the most elevated summits ; those which form the greater part of the most prominent points of the globe , with the exception of the volcanic mountains . Over and ...
Pàgina xlix
... rocks . Thus the country between Jerusalem and Jaffa is compact limestone : the hill on which Nazareth is built is ... rocks around the pool of Siloah are of limestone ; on Mount Zion the rocks are of a conchoidal grayish siliceous ...
... rocks . Thus the country between Jerusalem and Jaffa is compact limestone : the hill on which Nazareth is built is ... rocks around the pool of Siloah are of limestone ; on Mount Zion the rocks are of a conchoidal grayish siliceous ...
Pàgina 9
... rocks of the practical Geologist contain within themselves no register of their birth - day . The theo- rist may indeed speculate on the order of priority in primordial rocks , and call them successive forma- tions ; but this order can ...
... rocks of the practical Geologist contain within themselves no register of their birth - day . The theo- rist may indeed speculate on the order of priority in primordial rocks , and call them successive forma- tions ; but this order can ...
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A New System of Geology: In which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ... Andrew Ure Visualització completa - 1829 |
A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ... Andrew Ure Visualització completa - 1829 |
A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ... Andrew Ure Visualització completa - 1829 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 469 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Pàgina 596 - This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pàgina 467 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Pàgina xviii - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Pàgina 598 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 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.
Pàgina 79 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 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.
Pàgina 594 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Pàgina 612 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Pàgina 50 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament: and it was so.
Pàgina 597 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.