 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...upon the granitic platform, where they form an irregular ridge about eighteen miles in length and two in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit,...broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills are composed of loose scoriae, blocks of lava, lapilli, and puzzuolana, with fragments of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...granitic platform, where they form an irregular ridge about eighteen miles in length and two in hreadth. They are usually truncated at the summit, where the...broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills are composed of loose scoriae, block« of lava, lapilli, and puzzuolana, with fragments of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...grannie platform, where they form an irregular ridge, about eighteen miles in length and two in hreadth. They are usually truncated at the summit, where the...broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills are composed of loose scoriae, blocks of lava, lapilli, and puzzuolana, with fragments of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - France - 1844 - 698 pages
...court? try. The range of hills of the Mont« Dôme rises from a granitic platform, and stretches " 18m. in length by 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated...down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. Had these cones of loose sand and ashes been in existence previous to the Deluge, they must have been swept... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1851 - 602 pages
...placed on a granitic platform, form an irregular ridge (see fig. 436.), about 18 miles in length and 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit,...broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills are composed of loose scoriae, blocks of lava, lapilli, and pozzuolana, with fragments of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1852 - 570 pages
...placed on a granitic platform, form an irregular ridge (see fig. 436.), about 18 miles in length, and 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit,...broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills are composed of loose scoriae, blocks of lava, lapilli, and pozzuolana, with fragments of... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - Cartography - 1852 - 482 pages
...volcanoes form an irregular ridge on the platform, and extend for about eighteen miles in aleugth, and two in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit,...entire, the lava having issued from the base of the hill ; and the lavas may often be traced from the crater to the nearest valley, where they usurp the channel... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - France - 1854 - 678 pages
...to view, traversed by the winding Allier. On the SW rises the rival group of volcanoes of the Monta Dore ; the remainder of the panorama is somewhat uninteresting...down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. Had these cones of loose sand and ashes been in existence previous to the Deluge, they must have been swept... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1854 - 556 pages
...placed on a granitic platform, form an irregular ridge (see fig. 436), about 18 miles in length, and 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit, where the crater is of1en preserved entire, the lava having issued from the base of the hill. ]}ut frequently the crater... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1855 - 686 pages
...a granitic platform, form an irregular ridge (see fig. 621, p. 462), about 18 miles in length, and 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit,...entire, the lava having issued from the base of the bill. But frequently the crater is broken down on one side, where the lava has flowed out. The hills... | |
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Dôme rises from a granitic platform, and stretches " 18 m. in length by 2 in breadth. They are usually truncated at the summit, where the crater is often preserved entire, the lava having issued from the base of the hill; but frequently the crater is... 
