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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... mass of lava thrown up by the eruption of Skaptar - jökul in 1783 was greater in bulk than Mont Blanc . * The same eruption caused the de- struction of some 9336 human beings , 28,000 horses , 11,461 head of cattle , and 190,488 sheep ...
... mass of lava thrown up by the eruption of Skaptar - jökul in 1783 was greater in bulk than Mont Blanc . * The same eruption caused the de- struction of some 9336 human beings , 28,000 horses , 11,461 head of cattle , and 190,488 sheep ...
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... masses , from the size of a pea to that of a hazel - nut , of a spongiform texture , most fre- quently of a leek - green colour and olivinic character , some- times black and obsidian - like . There are also minute crys- talline masses ...
... masses , from the size of a pea to that of a hazel - nut , of a spongiform texture , most fre- quently of a leek - green colour and olivinic character , some- times black and obsidian - like . There are also minute crys- talline masses ...
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... masses , enclosing fragments of amygdaloidal or other trappean rocks . The stratified fissile rock is sometimes so granular and arenaceous as to be mistaken for sandstone . It is generally supposed that these tuffs were originally the ...
... masses , enclosing fragments of amygdaloidal or other trappean rocks . The stratified fissile rock is sometimes so granular and arenaceous as to be mistaken for sandstone . It is generally supposed that these tuffs were originally the ...
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... masses apparently of olivine , of a dirty yellowish - green colour - this colour resulting probably from partial ... mass , are nowhere found in Iceland . " This state- ment is based on the nomenclature of Krug von Nidda . But , in ...
... masses apparently of olivine , of a dirty yellowish - green colour - this colour resulting probably from partial ... mass , are nowhere found in Iceland . " This state- ment is based on the nomenclature of Krug von Nidda . But , in ...
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... mass of the rock . The Icelandic obsidians , though some- times bottle - green in colour , comparatively opaque at the edges , and otherwise resembling the Arran pitchstones , are generally of a pitchy - black , with a more vitreous ...
... mass of the rock . The Icelandic obsidians , though some- times bottle - green in colour , comparatively opaque at the edges , and otherwise resembling the Arran pitchstones , are generally of a pitchy - black , with a more vitreous ...
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