The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... become quite a thin crescent . At 2h 58m , fine parallel lines of shadowy waves running nearly north and south , were seen moving rapidly eastward over the rocks , accompanied by a flickering in the air . The light had now become very ...
... become quite a thin crescent . At 2h 58m , fine parallel lines of shadowy waves running nearly north and south , were seen moving rapidly eastward over the rocks , accompanied by a flickering in the air . The light had now become very ...
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... becoming more frequent visits of British tourists and naturalists , to pale and fade , while that of Skaptar , Krabla , and Kötlugjà , will probably increase correspondingly . Next to Skaptar - jökul , Kötlugjá is apparently the most ...
... becoming more frequent visits of British tourists and naturalists , to pale and fade , while that of Skaptar , Krabla , and Kötlugjà , will probably increase correspondingly . Next to Skaptar - jökul , Kötlugjá is apparently the most ...
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... becomes Katla , Kotla , or Kötlu jökul . In some maps it does not appear at all , either as fissure or volcano . This is the case in the map of Iceland attached to that of Denmark in Keith Johnston's " National Atlas , " which is ...
... becomes Katla , Kotla , or Kötlu jökul . In some maps it does not appear at all , either as fissure or volcano . This is the case in the map of Iceland attached to that of Denmark in Keith Johnston's " National Atlas , " which is ...
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... become marly ; frequently ferruginous , sometimes to such an extent as to become ochrey ; frequently granular , and to such an extent as to resemble argillaceous sandstones . Von Waltershausen de- scribes the Icelandic palagonite tuffs ...
... become marly ; frequently ferruginous , sometimes to such an extent as to become ochrey ; frequently granular , and to such an extent as to resemble argillaceous sandstones . Von Waltershausen de- scribes the Icelandic palagonite tuffs ...
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... becoming fine in the one case and coarse in the other ! The author of the same volume on Iceland appears to commit further mineralogical or geological errors ( as I may elsewhere show he also does botanical ones ) , as , for instance ...
... becoming fine in the one case and coarse in the other ! The author of the same volume on Iceland appears to commit further mineralogical or geological errors ( as I may elsewhere show he also does botanical ones ) , as , for instance ...
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ambulacra ambulacral animals apparatus appears Araucaria ashes axis basalt beds Botanic Garden bracts Carboniferous cold colour cone containing Cornwall crater deposits district drift earth earthquake elevated eruptions of Kötlugjá existence experiments Eyafjalla fact Fahr fault feet fissures Flora flowers frost geological geologist gneiss ground heat Hekla Henderson hills hoar-frost inches island jökuls Kertch Kötlugjá Laurustinus Ledbury less limestone Llandovery Ludlow Malvern mass miles Monocotyledons mountains nature night observations Old Red Old Red Sandstone organs ovule palagonite palagonite-tuff Patrick Wilson phenomena plants plates pole present probably Professor Pteraspis quantity quartzite Red Sandstone reference regard remarkable Reykjavik river rocks sand says scale seen SERIES.-VOL Severn shales Silurian silver skull snow Society soil species specimens strata surface syenite temperature theory thermometer tion trees Triassic tunnel upper valley vegetable volcanic volume on Iceland