The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 12. köideJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 |
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... existence , the newer the rocks in which they are embedded . Thus we have the table of British strata , such as the old red sandstone , the lias , and the chalk ; the oldest rocks known being the Laurentian , the newest including the ...
... existence , the newer the rocks in which they are embedded . Thus we have the table of British strata , such as the old red sandstone , the lias , and the chalk ; the oldest rocks known being the Laurentian , the newest including the ...
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... existence beneath those rocks which were formed subsequently to it . Thus it is that coal is considered as likely to occur in the south - eastern counties of England , beneath the tertiary and secondary rocks of that area ; it being ...
... existence beneath those rocks which were formed subsequently to it . Thus it is that coal is considered as likely to occur in the south - eastern counties of England , beneath the tertiary and secondary rocks of that area ; it being ...
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... existence of an Alexander depends in no slight degree upon them . The campaigns we speak of are real ; they are not mental figments , or allegorical illustrations . Success in the practice of horticulture , of agriculture , of forestry ...
... existence of an Alexander depends in no slight degree upon them . The campaigns we speak of are real ; they are not mental figments , or allegorical illustrations . Success in the practice of horticulture , of agriculture , of forestry ...
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... existence ; and hence , in a measure , the absence of vegetation in pine forests or under the shadow of dense woods . Some plants there are specially organised to resist and overcome these hostile conditions . Among them are the ...
... existence ; and hence , in a measure , the absence of vegetation in pine forests or under the shadow of dense woods . Some plants there are specially organised to resist and overcome these hostile conditions . Among them are the ...
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... existence of that natural alternation of which Dureau de la Malle speaks , and which is admitted by all subsequent observers . Mere exhaustion of the soil will not account for the phenomena in all cases , because a crop will fail 40 ...
... existence of that natural alternation of which Dureau de la Malle speaks , and which is admitted by all subsequent observers . Mere exhaustion of the soil will not account for the phenomena in all cases , because a crop will fail 40 ...
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