Rain and Rivers, Or, Hutton and Playfair Against Lyell and All ComersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 237 páginas |
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... chalk flints which covered the Weald hill . 20 67 The Itchen once rose on the Weald hill 67 The waterslope of the Arun is still robbing the water- slope of the Itchen . • Romney and Hythe once cinque ports • · They now bear sheep not ...
... chalk flints which covered the Weald hill . 20 67 The Itchen once rose on the Weald hill 67 The waterslope of the Arun is still robbing the water- slope of the Itchen . • Romney and Hythe once cinque ports • · They now bear sheep not ...
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... chalk which stand out abruptly from the sloping banks of the Seine in Normandy , which Lyell considers as remnants from the surrounding denudation of the sea , exist only , because being harder than the neighbouring chalk , they have ...
... chalk which stand out abruptly from the sloping banks of the Seine in Normandy , which Lyell considers as remnants from the surrounding denudation of the sea , exist only , because being harder than the neighbouring chalk , they have ...
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... again as being in a state of slow decomposition , either exfoliating or being covered with powder , like the chalk cliffs on the English coast . ' 6 To account for the rarity of these so - called CH . II . ] 31 AND LAKES OF AUVERGNE .
... again as being in a state of slow decomposition , either exfoliating or being covered with powder , like the chalk cliffs on the English coast . ' 6 To account for the rarity of these so - called CH . II . ] 31 AND LAKES OF AUVERGNE .
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... CHALK FLINTS WHICH COVERED THE WEALD HILL . THE ITCHEN ONCE ROSE ON THE WEALD HILL . THE WATER SLOPE OF THE ARUN IS STILL ROBBING THE WATERSLOPE OF THE ITCHEN . ROMNEY AND HYTHE ONCE CINQUE PORTS . THEY NOW BEAR SHEEP NOT SHIPS . his ...
... CHALK FLINTS WHICH COVERED THE WEALD HILL . THE ITCHEN ONCE ROSE ON THE WEALD HILL . THE WATER SLOPE OF THE ARUN IS STILL ROBBING THE WATERSLOPE OF THE ITCHEN . ROMNEY AND HYTHE ONCE CINQUE PORTS . THEY NOW BEAR SHEEP NOT SHIPS . his ...
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... chalk and upper greensand , No. 1 , over the gault . Lyell thinks that the pink tertiary strata did not join over the chalk , because they may have been deposited from his favourite marine de- nudation after the chalk was raised . He ...
... chalk and upper greensand , No. 1 , over the gault . Lyell thinks that the pink tertiary strata did not join over the chalk , because they may have been deposited from his favourite marine de- nudation after the chalk was raised . He ...
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