The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)Clarendon Press, 1906 - Earth (Planet) |
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Alps ancient anticlinal appears Archaean Arctic Armorican Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Baltic Barrois basin beds beneath border Cambrian Canadian shield cape Carboniferous limestone chain coal Coal-measures continued coral cordillera corresponds Cretaceous Devonian direction eastern elevation Europe existing extends fauna feet fjord folded ranges followed formation formed fossils fracture fragments further Fusulina Geol Geology glacier gneiss granite Greenland gulf height horizontal intercalations island Journ Jurassic lake land lies lower mass Mediterranean Mesozoic meters mountains negative movement north-east north-west northern observations occur Ocean oscillations Palaeozoic peninsula period Pettersen plateau present quartzite recent red sandstone reefs region Rhaetic rise river rocks Salangen schists sediments sér shells side Silurian slopes south-east south-west southern species Spitzbergen stage strand-line strike structure subsidence Sudetes surface table-land terraces Tertiary thickness transgression Trias upper valley volcanos western whole zone
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Page 462 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Page 376 - Baiarum litore quondam 710 saxea pila cadit, magnis quam molibus ante constructam ponto iaciunt, sic ilia ruinam prona trahit penitusque vadis inlisa recumbit ; miscent se maria et nigrae attolluntur harenae ; turn sonitu Prochyta alta tremit durumque cubile 715 Inarime lovis imperiis imposta Typhoeo.
Page 411 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 551 - the more recent movement was an accumulation of water towards the equator, a diminution toward the poles, and as though this last movement were only one of the many oscillations which succeed each other with the same tendency, ie, with a positive excess at the equator, a negative excess at the poles
Page 91 - On the Possible Extension of the Coal-measures beneath the South-Eastern Part of England.
Page 537 - As soon as we recognize the Ocean basins as sunken areas, the continents assume the character of horsts, and the wedge-like outlines of Africa, India, and Greenland, all pointing towards the south, find their explanation in the conjunction of fields of subsidence which reach their greatest development in the fame direction.
Page 540 - the theory of secular oscillations of the continents is not competent to explain the repeated inundation and emergence of the land. The changes are much too extensive and too uniform to have been caused by movements of the earth's crust...
Page 510 - Beluchistan and Persia from Karachi to the head of the Persian Gulf, and on some of the Gulf Islands.
Page 234 - On our present Knowledge of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Lower Carboniferous or Calciferous Sandstone Series of the Edinburgh Neighbourhood, especially of that division known as the Wardie Shales, and on the first appearance of certain Species in the Beds.
Page 553 - Ocean is subject to an independent movement which in the course of long periods causes an alternation of positive and negative phases at the equator. We shall be able to discuss this oceanic movement with greater certainty when the stratified series in high latitudes is better known, and when we are able to clearly distinguish the terraces formed by glacial lakes from those of marine origin. These great oscillations are not, however, cumulative in time ; on the contrary, they are compensatory. The...