A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos: With Remarks on Their Origin, Their Chemical Phaenomena, and the Character of Their Products, as Determined by the Condition of the Earth During the Period of Their Formation. Being the Substance of Some Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford, with Much Additional Matter |
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... effects have resulted even within the narrow limits of our own observation , which , although inferior in point of magnitude to some of those produced at former periods , seem nevertheless analogous in kind . It is therefore rather ...
... effects have resulted even within the narrow limits of our own observation , which , although inferior in point of magnitude to some of those produced at former periods , seem nevertheless analogous in kind . It is therefore rather ...
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... effect may have been produced by the preponderance of the arguments in favour of the igneous theory , which might seem to render it superfluous to hunt for proofs in distant countries , while facts were every day accumulating from ...
... effect may have been produced by the preponderance of the arguments in favour of the igneous theory , which might seem to render it superfluous to hunt for proofs in distant countries , while facts were every day accumulating from ...
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... effect singular changes in the face of the country which it traverses . Accordingly we shall find that it has blocked up a little valley which formerly seems to have had a drain- age to the west , on the side of Chambois and Massanges ...
... effect singular changes in the face of the country which it traverses . Accordingly we shall find that it has blocked up a little valley which formerly seems to have had a drain- age to the west , on the side of Chambois and Massanges ...
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... effect of heat , and partly by elastic vapours . The difficulty of supposing so complete a destruction of a stratum as is implied by Mons . Daubuisson's hypothesis , * See my Third Lecture . leads me to prefer that part of Von Buch's ...
... effect of heat , and partly by elastic vapours . The difficulty of supposing so complete a destruction of a stratum as is implied by Mons . Daubuisson's hypothesis , * See my Third Lecture . leads me to prefer that part of Von Buch's ...
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... effect is explained by observing that the portions of the diluvial matter which rise in this abrupt manner above the rest , have been protected from the action of the rain , for we may observe on the top of every one of these a large ...
... effect is explained by observing that the portions of the diluvial matter which rise in this abrupt manner above the rest , have been protected from the action of the rain , for we may observe on the top of every one of these a large ...
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Page 279 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Page 279 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 325 - The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its " fiery surge
Page 326 - It was evident, that the large crater had been recently filled with liquid lava up to this black ledge, and had, by some subterranean canal, emptied itself into the sea, or upon the low land on the shore.
Page 278 - Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence...
Page 325 - ... and flaming billows. Fifty-one conical islands, of varied form and size, containing so many craters, rose either round the edge or from the surface of the burning lake. Twentytwo constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame ; and several of these at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below.
Page 317 - ... the mountain began to give way, and the greatest part of it actually fell in,, and disappeared in the earth. At the same time a tremendous noise was heard, resembling the discharge of the heaviest cannon. Immense...
Page 278 - Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
Page 191 - Wheb a shock is felt, when the earth is shaken on it-s old foundations, which we had deemed so stable, one instant is sufficient to destroy long illusions. It is like awakening from a dream; but a painful awakening.
Page 338 - September every thing seemed to announce the complete re-establishment of tranquillity, when in the night between the 28th and '29th the horrible subterraneous noise recommenced. The affrighted Indians fled to the mountains of Aguasarco. A tract of ground from three to four square miles in extent, which goes by the name of Malpays, rose up in the shape of a bladder.