Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & SciencesArchon Books, 1810 - 42 páginas |
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... whin stone in Scot- land , trap in Sweden , and basalt in some countries . The Giant's Causeway in Ireland , and the Cave of Fin- gal in the island of Staffa , on the western coast of Scot-- land , are famous , all the world over , for ...
... whin stone in Scot- land , trap in Sweden , and basalt in some countries . The Giant's Causeway in Ireland , and the Cave of Fin- gal in the island of Staffa , on the western coast of Scot-- land , are famous , all the world over , for ...
Página 89
... whin stone of Salisbury Craig , which is most similar to that of the East Rock , gave 46 silex 19 argil 17 oxid of iron 8 lime 4 moisture and other vol . matter in every 100 parts . 3,5 soda or about that quantity 7 muriatic acid 98,5 ...
... whin stone of Salisbury Craig , which is most similar to that of the East Rock , gave 46 silex 19 argil 17 oxid of iron 8 lime 4 moisture and other vol . matter in every 100 parts . 3,5 soda or about that quantity 7 muriatic acid 98,5 ...
Página 90
... whin stone is a product of subterranean heat . He sup- poses it to have been once in a semifluid state , and in that condition to have been forced from below upward among the superior strata by subterranean fire , where , by slow ...
... whin stone is a product of subterranean heat . He sup- poses it to have been once in a semifluid state , and in that condition to have been forced from below upward among the superior strata by subterranean fire , where , by slow ...
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... whin stone which we now see above the surface , they suppose that the materials which lay above , have been worn and washed away in the progress of time by the weather , and have left the harder and less destructi- ble masses of whin stone ...
... whin stone which we now see above the surface , they suppose that the materials which lay above , have been worn and washed away in the progress of time by the weather , and have left the harder and less destructi- ble masses of whin stone ...
Página 92
... whin stone mountain . These are however some masses of compact , fine grained black basalt lying upon the hill ; and upon the whole , we must pronounce it granitic , although it is not granite , and inclining to whin , although it is ...
... whin stone mountain . These are however some masses of compact , fine grained black basalt lying upon the hill ; and upon the whole , we must pronounce it granitic , although it is not granite , and inclining to whin , although it is ...
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