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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... direction of its strata , and the existence of a crater , by which a volcano is usually characterized , there are certain circumstances in the aspect of the individual masses which appear to afford decided in- dications of a similar ...
... direction of its strata , and the existence of a crater , by which a volcano is usually characterized , there are certain circumstances in the aspect of the individual masses which appear to afford decided in- dications of a similar ...
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... direction of a place called Tournebise , reaches the village of Mont Gibaud , and terminates like the other , by flowing into the bed of the river , about three miles lower down . A torrent of this description might naturally be ...
... direction of a place called Tournebise , reaches the village of Mont Gibaud , and terminates like the other , by flowing into the bed of the river , about three miles lower down . A torrent of this description might naturally be ...
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... direction contrary to the slope of the country , a large portion of the waters con- stantly stagnates in its channel , and has formed a swamp which goes by the name of the " Etang de Fung . " * A somewhat similar circumstance has ...
... direction contrary to the slope of the country , a large portion of the waters con- stantly stagnates in its channel , and has formed a swamp which goes by the name of the " Etang de Fung . " * A somewhat similar circumstance has ...
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... direction of the sea , has formed a neck of land called Cape Agde , and a little island at a short distance from the shore . M. Marcel de Serres has also described two other rocks to which he assigns the same origin and date ; the one ...
... direction of the sea , has formed a neck of land called Cape Agde , and a little island at a short distance from the shore . M. Marcel de Serres has also described two other rocks to which he assigns the same origin and date ; the one ...
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... directions away from the centre at a consider- able angle , and the same kind of material has in many instances so accumulated round the cones , as to obliterate in great measure the hollow between them , and to raise the level of the ...
... directions away from the centre at a consider- able angle , and the same kind of material has in many instances so accumulated round the cones , as to obliterate in great measure the hollow between them , and to raise the level of the ...
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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 326 - The sides of the gulf before us, although composed of different strata of ancient lava, were perpendicular for about 400 feet, and rose from a wide horizontal ledge of solid black lava of irregular breadth, but extending completely round. Beneath this ledge the sides sloped gradually towards the burning lake, which was, as nearly as we could judge, 300 or 400 feet lower. It was evident, that the large crater had been recently filled with liquid lava up to this black ledge, and had, by some subterranean...
Page 322 - From midnight till the evening of the llth, they continued without intermission ; after that time their violence moderated, and they were heard only at intervals, but the explosions did not cease entirely till the 15th of July. Of all the villages round Tomboro, Tempo, containing about forty inhabitants, is the only one remaining. In Pekate...
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 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. Twenty-two 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 337 - A vast plain extends from the hills of Aguasarco, to near the villages of Teipa and Petatlan, both equally celebrated for their fine plantations of cotton. This plain, between...
Page 129 - ... inquit >frondoso vertice collem/ - quis deus, incertum est - habitat deus...
Page 324 - ... feet below its original level. The surface of this plain was uneven, and strewed over with large stones and volcanic rocks, and in the centre of it was the great crater, at the distance of a mile and a half from the precipice on which we were standing.
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.