Nature, Volume 23Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1881 - Electronic journals |
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... period are in direct relation to the present coast lines . " There does not seem to be a shadow of reason for supposing that the gently undulating plains , extending for over a hundred million of square miles , at a depth of 2500 ...
... period are in direct relation to the present coast lines . " There does not seem to be a shadow of reason for supposing that the gently undulating plains , extending for over a hundred million of square miles , at a depth of 2500 ...
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... period which witnessed the outburst of these western basalts . Further research has fully confirmed this inference . There can be no doubt that the outpouring of these great floods of lava of which the hills of Antrim , Mull , Morven ...
... period which witnessed the outburst of these western basalts . Further research has fully confirmed this inference . There can be no doubt that the outpouring of these great floods of lava of which the hills of Antrim , Mull , Morven ...
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... period of about seventy years , and which will con- sequently be again approaching its perihelion . M. Schulhof hopes to complete the calculations early in the ensuing year . He has discovered a series of original observations by ...
... period of about seventy years , and which will con- sequently be again approaching its perihelion . M. Schulhof hopes to complete the calculations early in the ensuing year . He has discovered a series of original observations by ...
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... period of comparative culture . But hundreds of such ex- amples would bring us no nearer than we were before to the starting point , to the faculty of naming things and actions , to the reason of certain sounds being selected in ...
... period of comparative culture . But hundreds of such ex- amples would bring us no nearer than we were before to the starting point , to the faculty of naming things and actions , to the reason of certain sounds being selected in ...
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... period are in direct relation to the present coast lines , " and he asks in what possible sense this can be the case . I fully admit the criticism , and that the sentence as it stands does not explain itself . • That it is not a ...
... period are in direct relation to the present coast lines , " and he asks in what possible sense this can be the case . I fully admit the criticism , and that the sentence as it stands does not explain itself . • That it is not a ...
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