Rain and Rivers, Or, Hutton and Playfair Against Lyell and All ComersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 237 páginas |
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... lakes , and drift and alluvium - things which , speaking geologically , were formed yesterday , and will be gone to - morrow . In these modern land museums , however , the remains of man and mammalia are found , and they would be found ...
... lakes , and drift and alluvium - things which , speaking geologically , were formed yesterday , and will be gone to - morrow . In these modern land museums , however , the remains of man and mammalia are found , and they would be found ...
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... LAKES OF AUVERGNE . Terraces of Glen Roy prove enormous denudation in former times Why should this denudation have ceased now ? Lakes of Auvergne first filled with alluvium , then cut into hills and valleys by rain and rivers = 3 11 13 ...
... LAKES OF AUVERGNE . Terraces of Glen Roy prove enormous denudation in former times Why should this denudation have ceased now ? Lakes of Auvergne first filled with alluvium , then cut into hills and valleys by rain and rivers = 3 11 13 ...
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... lakes are being laid dry by rain This will happen without any apparent change . Two miniature Weald valleys in the Isle of Wight Origin of the Chines 77 78 80 6 Origin of the name of the Weald ' Answer to Lyell's question , ' At what ...
... lakes are being laid dry by rain This will happen without any apparent change . Two miniature Weald valleys in the Isle of Wight Origin of the Chines 77 78 80 6 Origin of the name of the Weald ' Answer to Lyell's question , ' At what ...
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... lakes are not valleys 188 . 188 Humboldt says the Atlantic is a valley 188 · And formed by running water . What a valley is The basins of London , Paris and Hampshire , are not 189 • 191 valleys CHAPTER XIV . MAN MAY HAVE EXISTED IN THE ...
... lakes are not valleys 188 . 188 Humboldt says the Atlantic is a valley 188 · And formed by running water . What a valley is The basins of London , Paris and Hampshire , are not 189 • 191 valleys CHAPTER XIV . MAN MAY HAVE EXISTED IN THE ...
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... can show that this illustrious writer is here not only contradictory to what we see in nature , but completely contradictory to himself throughout . CHAPTER II . TERRACES OF GLEN ROY , AND LAKES CH . I. ] 9 THEORIES OF FORMING VALLEYS .
... can show that this illustrious writer is here not only contradictory to what we see in nature , but completely contradictory to himself throughout . CHAPTER II . TERRACES OF GLEN ROY , AND LAKES CH . I. ] 9 THEORIES OF FORMING VALLEYS .
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