The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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Page 170
... crust of the earth is to produce small elevations and depressions on the mathematical sur- face which would be otherwise spheroidal . No geodesist can proceed far in his work without encountering the irre- gularities of the mathematical ...
... crust of the earth is to produce small elevations and depressions on the mathematical sur- face which would be otherwise spheroidal . No geodesist can proceed far in his work without encountering the irre- gularities of the mathematical ...
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... crust . He recognizes the atmospheric car- bonic acid as the source of the carbon built up into the structure of plants He cannot contemplate without ever- increasing wonder and delight the coming and going of the water - vapour in the ...
... crust . He recognizes the atmospheric car- bonic acid as the source of the carbon built up into the structure of plants He cannot contemplate without ever- increasing wonder and delight the coming and going of the water - vapour in the ...
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... crust , and the chief rocks of which that crust is built up . In this way we lay a foundation of knowledge regarding the nature of the materials constituting the mass of the globe , and may next proceed to investigate the processes by ...
... crust , and the chief rocks of which that crust is built up . In this way we lay a foundation of knowledge regarding the nature of the materials constituting the mass of the globe , and may next proceed to investigate the processes by ...
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... crust of our globe . If then geological history is to be compiled from direct evidence furnished by the rocks of the earth , it cannot begin at the beginning of things , but must be content to date its first chapter from the earliest ...
... crust of our globe . If then geological history is to be compiled from direct evidence furnished by the rocks of the earth , it cannot begin at the beginning of things , but must be content to date its first chapter from the earliest ...
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... crust . Thus we have such minerals as pyrite , apatite , olivine , augite , hornblende , and labradorite . No more reliable proof could be desired that some at least of the other members of the solar system are formed of the same ...
... crust . Thus we have such minerals as pyrite , apatite , olivine , augite , hornblende , and labradorite . No more reliable proof could be desired that some at least of the other members of the solar system are formed of the same ...
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