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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... volcanic eruption in Iceland since that of Hekla in 1845-6 . It was alleged that as yet Kötlugjá had emitted only water ; but this , it was feared , was only a prelude to the more destructive ejections of lava . The season of the year ...
... volcanic eruption in Iceland since that of Hekla in 1845-6 . It was alleged that as yet Kötlugjá had emitted only water ; but this , it was feared , was only a prelude to the more destructive ejections of lava . The season of the year ...
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... volcanic phenomena of Iceland . This depends on a variety of causes . While many Icelanders are devoted to the cultivation of his- tory and poetry - in which departments of literature they un- doubtedly excel - few or none seem to be ...
... volcanic phenomena of Iceland . This depends on a variety of causes . While many Icelanders are devoted to the cultivation of his- tory and poetry - in which departments of literature they un- doubtedly excel - few or none seem to be ...
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... volcanic eruption at a distance of 80 or 100 miles from the capital is not a phenomenon likely to attract visitors from Reykjavik , or to induce them to undergo the tediousness , peril , and expense of Icelandic travelling the object to ...
... volcanic eruption at a distance of 80 or 100 miles from the capital is not a phenomenon likely to attract visitors from Reykjavik , or to induce them to undergo the tediousness , peril , and expense of Icelandic travelling the object to ...
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... volcanic pheno- mena in a country which , in respect of the importance and interest of such phenomena , is unparalleled in the world , I would have endeavoured to collect into one paper the informa- tion — not very accessible to the ...
... volcanic pheno- mena in a country which , in respect of the importance and interest of such phenomena , is unparalleled in the world , I would have endeavoured to collect into one paper the informa- tion — not very accessible to the ...
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... volcanic vents in Iceland , and Hekla is not the most important of these from any point of view . In regard to the extent of its eruptions , the quantity of lava thrown out , or the devastation caused to men and cattle , it falls very ...
... volcanic vents in Iceland , and Hekla is not the most important of these from any point of view . In regard to the extent of its eruptions , the quantity of lava thrown out , or the devastation caused to men and cattle , it falls very ...
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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