The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volumen6S. Converse, 1848 |
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... deposit is not blown sand , as it is nearly level , while that near the beach is piled in hills sixty feet to seventy feet high , and continually encroaching upon the level estuary deposit , burying the forest on the landward side in ...
... deposit is not blown sand , as it is nearly level , while that near the beach is piled in hills sixty feet to seventy feet high , and continually encroaching upon the level estuary deposit , burying the forest on the landward side in ...
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... deposits of clay and sand , prove their modern age still more conclusively . At the head of Galveston bay and even near the town of Houston , I found at a height of twelve to twenty feet above the general level of the bay , large deposits ...
... deposits of clay and sand , prove their modern age still more conclusively . At the head of Galveston bay and even near the town of Houston , I found at a height of twelve to twenty feet above the general level of the bay , large deposits ...
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... deposits along the coast of Texas were formed , did not differ materially from the present , except that a change in the relative level of land and sea has since taken place . To the diluvial period must be likewise referred the depos ...
... deposits along the coast of Texas were formed , did not differ materially from the present , except that a change in the relative level of land and sea has since taken place . To the diluvial period must be likewise referred the depos ...
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... deposits have a wide range in the eastern part of Texas , though I am unable to give their exact limits . Tertiary fossils from Na- cogdoches seem to indicate that the deposits of the Brazos ex- tend as far as there . Cretaceous ...
... deposits have a wide range in the eastern part of Texas , though I am unable to give their exact limits . Tertiary fossils from Na- cogdoches seem to indicate that the deposits of the Brazos ex- tend as far as there . Cretaceous ...
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... deposits with those of New Jersey , and other localities on the Atlantic coast , the difference in the zoological character appears hardly less striking than the difference in the mineralogical constitution which was alluded to before ...
... deposits with those of New Jersey , and other localities on the Atlantic coast , the difference in the zoological character appears hardly less striking than the difference in the mineralogical constitution which was alluded to before ...
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