The Gallery of Nature; a Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, Illustrative of the Wonders of Astronmy, Physical Geography, and Geology |
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Page 136
... mass would have been precipitated to the earth . Two aërolites fell at Braunau in Bohemia , July 14 , 1847 . In addition to aërolites , properly so called , or bodies known to have come to us from outlying space , large metallic masses ...
... mass would have been precipitated to the earth . Two aërolites fell at Braunau in Bohemia , July 14 , 1847 . In addition to aërolites , properly so called , or bodies known to have come to us from outlying space , large metallic masses ...
Page 240
... mass of lava equal in volume to a cone 5820 feet in height , and 11,640 feet in breadth , or nearly four times larger than Vesuvius . Fourteen such eruptions would produce a mass equal to Mont Blanc , reckoning from the level of the sea ...
... mass of lava equal in volume to a cone 5820 feet in height , and 11,640 feet in breadth , or nearly four times larger than Vesuvius . Fourteen such eruptions would produce a mass equal to Mont Blanc , reckoning from the level of the sea ...
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... mass of trap . To the left a large mass appears overlying the strata ; from this a horizontal bed runs conformably through the midst of the strata , ultimately becoming divided into beds , three smaller interstratifying the sandstone ...
... mass of trap . To the left a large mass appears overlying the strata ; from this a horizontal bed runs conformably through the midst of the strata , ultimately becoming divided into beds , three smaller interstratifying the sandstone ...
Contents
Illustrated TitleAstronomy | 14 |
Sycne near Alexandria | 89 |
Translation of the Earth in space | 159 |
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