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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Page 17
... described in regard to Kötlugjá - crevices in the ice or snow - fields , and immense walls of igneous rocks , much too precipitous to scale . Add to this , the usual absence of har- bours of refuge , or places of refreshment of any kind ...
... described in regard to Kötlugjá - crevices in the ice or snow - fields , and immense walls of igneous rocks , much too precipitous to scale . Add to this , the usual absence of har- bours of refuge , or places of refreshment of any kind ...
Page 18
... described is frequently the first land on the coast of Iceland sighted by vessels coming from Faröe or Scotland . It has a most imposing appearance in fine weather ; and , with the exception , perhaps , of Snæfell on the west coast ...
... described is frequently the first land on the coast of Iceland sighted by vessels coming from Faröe or Scotland . It has a most imposing appearance in fine weather ; and , with the exception , perhaps , of Snæfell on the west coast ...
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... is usually 2.729 ; it appears to be a Lime - oligoclase , belonging , therefore , to the Felspathic family of minerals . described as virtually siliceous slaty clays , frequently cal- careous 22 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the Eruption.
... is usually 2.729 ; it appears to be a Lime - oligoclase , belonging , therefore , to the Felspathic family of minerals . described as virtually siliceous slaty clays , frequently cal- careous 22 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the Eruption.
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... described as virtually siliceous slaty clays , frequently cal- careous , sometimes to such an extent as to become marly ; frequently ferruginous , sometimes to such an extent as to become ochrey ; frequently granular , and to such an ...
... described as virtually siliceous slaty clays , frequently cal- careous , sometimes to such an extent as to become marly ; frequently ferruginous , sometimes to such an extent as to become ochrey ; frequently granular , and to such an ...
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... described ; still more internally , there is a shell of quartz , -green externally from chloritic coloration , and coarsely pseudo- fibrous , gradually losing its colour and fibrous character as it approaches the centre of the cavity ...
... described ; still more internally , there is a shell of quartz , -green externally from chloritic coloration , and coarsely pseudo- fibrous , gradually losing its colour and fibrous character as it approaches the centre of the cavity ...
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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