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 19
... specimen , labelled pala- gonite , from the valley of Seljadalur , between Reykjavik and the Lake of Thingvalla , sent me by Professor ... specimens sent me . the same thing in another form ; it is more of the Kötlugjá Volcano , Iceland . 19.
... specimen , labelled pala- gonite , from the valley of Seljadalur , between Reykjavik and the Lake of Thingvalla , sent me by Professor ... specimens sent me . the same thing in another form ; it is more of the Kötlugjá Volcano , Iceland . 19.
Page 20
... specimens are widely different from the palagonite - tuff collected by myself on the coast midway between Reykjavik and Havnafiord , or sent me by Dr Hjaltalin from the Fossvogur near Reykjavik . In the former place it is stratified and ...
... specimens are widely different from the palagonite - tuff collected by myself on the coast midway between Reykjavik and Havnafiord , or sent me by Dr Hjaltalin from the Fossvogur near Reykjavik . In the former place it is stratified and ...
Page 22
... specimens ; and this is nowise remarkable , when the striking differences in the character of palagonite - tuffs is borne in mind , differences which probably imply corresponding variations in chemical composi- tion . The " some alkali ...
... specimens ; and this is nowise remarkable , when the striking differences in the character of palagonite - tuffs is borne in mind , differences which probably imply corresponding variations in chemical composi- tion . The " some alkali ...
Page 23
... specimens of all the Palagonites and Palagonite - tuffs mentioned on pages 19 and 20 of this paper . But , in none of them , even after boiling in nitric acid , did they find even traces of Infusoria or their skeletons ! † While in ...
... specimens of all the Palagonites and Palagonite - tuffs mentioned on pages 19 and 20 of this paper . But , in none of them , even after boiling in nitric acid , did they find even traces of Infusoria or their skeletons ! † While in ...
Page 26
... specimens I have from Hekla - are scarcely distinguishable from the Arran pitchstones . In basalt from the Laxá elv or Salmon river , near Reykjavik , the base is more of a dull earthy aspect than is common in our basalts . The rock is ...
... specimens I have from Hekla - are scarcely distinguishable from the Arran pitchstones . In basalt from the Laxá elv or Salmon river , near Reykjavik , the base is more of a dull earthy aspect than is common in our basalts . The rock is ...
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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