The First One Hundred Years of American GeologyYale University Press, 1924 - 773 pagina's |
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American geology American Journal appeared appointed argillite Azoic basins beds bowlders Cambrian Carboniferous colored considered contained Cretaceous crust Dana deposits described Devonian drift earth Edward Hitchcock elevation Emmons Eocene Eozoon epoch evidence expedition exploration fact feet formation fossils geological map geological survey geologist glacial glaciers gneiss granite Hayden Hitchcock Hudson Hudson River igneous J. J. Stevenson James Hall Journal of Science Lake Lake Superior land later lignite limestone Lower Silurian mass matter metamorphic miles mineral mineralogy Miocene Mississippi Missouri mountains nature Newberry North noted observations ocean origin paleontology Paleozoic paper period Permian phenomena plates portion position Potsdam present Prof Professor published quartz Red sandstone referred regarded region River rocks Rogers sand sedimentary shales Silurian slate species strata surface Taconic Tertiary theory thought tion Triassic uplift Upper Valley views volcanic volume western wrote York
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Pagina 82 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Pagina 61 - And when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened...
Pagina 648 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Pagina 594 - Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe? Not on the vulgar mass Called "work...
Pagina 15 - And if this animal was indeed carnivorous, which I believe cannot be doubted, though we may as philosophers regret it, as men we cannot but thank Heaven that its whole generation is probably extinct.
Pagina 96 - A Sketch of the Geology, Mineralogy and Scenery of the Regions contiguous to the River Connecticut ; with a Geological Map and Drawings of Organic Remains, etc.
Pagina 551 - That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.
Pagina 17 - the investigation of the Mineral and Fossil bodies which compose the Fabric of the Globe, and more especially for the Natural and Chemical History of the Minerals and Fossils of the United States.
Pagina 155 - Hence, it is impossible to deny, that the waters of the sea have formerly, and for a long time, covered those masses of matter which now constitute our highest mountains; and farther, that these waters, during a long time, did not support any living bodies.
Pagina 154 - After a somewhat prolonged discussion of the meaning of the term "days," as used in Genesis, he gave the following: TABLE OF COINCIDENCES BETWEEN THE ORDER OF EVENTS AS DESCRIBED IN GENESIS AND THAT UNFOLDED BY GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS.