Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 7. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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Page 74
... land of this period was broken into a series of undulations , as it is at present , although the mountains were not so high as they are now . The uplands were thickly covered with woods and forests of Araucarian pines and thickets of ...
... land of this period was broken into a series of undulations , as it is at present , although the mountains were not so high as they are now . The uplands were thickly covered with woods and forests of Araucarian pines and thickets of ...
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... land was watered by large rivers , whose mouths deboxched into the sea , and furnished it with the sedimentary material whose accumula- tion to the thickness of nearly five hundred feet , ultimately formed the London clay . This land ...
... land was watered by large rivers , whose mouths deboxched into the sea , and furnished it with the sedimentary material whose accumula- tion to the thickness of nearly five hundred feet , ultimately formed the London clay . This land ...
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... land . The fossil plants found in the lignite beds where I lay , before I was disinterred by the curious geologist to tell him my personal experience , them- selves assist me in unfolding a wondrous tale . Lignite beds , of Miocene age ...
... land . The fossil plants found in the lignite beds where I lay , before I was disinterred by the curious geologist to tell him my personal experience , them- selves assist me in unfolding a wondrous tale . Lignite beds , of Miocene age ...
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