 Aided by the winds and waves, it undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sand-stone of Shetland, and removes the gravel and loam of the cliffs of Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, which are between fifty and two hundred feet in...  The chemistry of creation - Page 450by Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1847 - 866 pages
...of various kinds. Aided by the winds and waves, it undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sand-stone of Shetland, and removes...annually. It also bears away, in co-operation with ie Thames and the tides, the strata of London clay on the const of Essex and Sheppey. The sea at the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...material by the tidal current of the German Ocean. It undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sandstone of Shetland, and removes...at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It bears away the strata of London clay on the coast of Essex and Sheppy — consumes the chalk with its... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1854 - 870 pages
...of various kinds. Aided by the waves, it undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap-rocks, and sandstone of Shetland, and removes the gravel...Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, which are between twenty and three hundred feet in height, and which waste at various rates of from one foot to six yards... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1856 - 724 pages
...Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, which we between fifty and two hundred feet in height, and • iiiili waste at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It bears away the strata of London clay on the coast of К--ЧХ and Sheppey — consumes the chalk with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1857 - 712 pages
...being desLavo seen, materials of various kinds. It undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sandstone of Shetland, and removes...at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It bears away the strata of London day on the coast of Essex and Sheppcy— consumes the chalk with its... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...material by the stormy action of the German Ocean. It undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sandstone of Shetland, and removes...at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It bears away the strata of London clay on the coast of Essex and Sheppy — consumes the chalk with its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...coins of the have seen, materials oí various kinds. It undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sandstone of Shetland, and removes...at the rate of from one to six yards annually. It bears air ay the strata of London r lay on the coast of Essex and Sheppey— consumes the chalk with... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1867 - 746 pages
...materials of various kinds. Aided by the waves, it undermines and sweeps away the granite, gneiss, trap rocks, and sand-stone of Shetland, and removes the gravel and loam of the cliffs of Holdemess, Norfolk, and » Nouvclle Chroniqne dc la Villede Bayonne, pp. 113, 139. 1827. Suffolk, which... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Evolution - 1872 - 712 pages
...sandstone of Shetland, and removes the » Nouvelle Chroniqua de la Ville de Bayo ne, pr. 113, 139. 1827. gravel and loam of the cliffs of Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, -which are between twenty and three hundred feet in height, and which waste at various rates of from one foot to six yards... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...sandstone of Shetland, and removes the * Nouvelle Chronique de la Ville de Bayonne, pp. 113, 139. 1827' gravel and loam of the cliffs of Holderness, Norfolk, and Suffolk, which are between twenty and three hundred feet in height, and which waste at various rates of from one foot to six yards... | |
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