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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... midst . The stream of lava that has occasioned this impediment appears to have been furnished by one of three mountains , all of which have given out coulées flowing in the same direction , and therefore intermixed one with the other ...
... midst . The stream of lava that has occasioned this impediment appears to have been furnished by one of three mountains , all of which have given out coulées flowing in the same direction , and therefore intermixed one with the other ...
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... midst of a sort of amphitheatre of volcanic rocks , which it considerably overtops , but which by a little stretch of the * See Sidon . Apoll . Lib . 7. Epist . I. ad Mamertum . imagination might be supposed to have constituted the ...
... midst of a sort of amphitheatre of volcanic rocks , which it considerably overtops , but which by a little stretch of the * See Sidon . Apoll . Lib . 7. Epist . I. ad Mamertum . imagination might be supposed to have constituted the ...
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... midst of a volcanic country . From what materials this singular rock can have been produced , seems still more problematical ; if , as it is most probable , from the subjacent granite , what is become of the greater part of the quartz ...
... midst of a volcanic country . From what materials this singular rock can have been produced , seems still more problematical ; if , as it is most probable , from the subjacent granite , what is become of the greater part of the quartz ...
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... midst of domite . With regard to the volcanic trap or lavas which occupy the lower portions of the mountain , we may consider these as detached from the rocks that occur in the Montagne de Gouttes and Puy Chaumont contiguous , elevated ...
... midst of domite . With regard to the volcanic trap or lavas which occupy the lower portions of the mountain , we may consider these as detached from the rocks that occur in the Montagne de Gouttes and Puy Chaumont contiguous , elevated ...
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... ; the other attaining a considerable height , and remarkable for the abruptness with which it rises out of the midst of so level a plain , reminding us of the Roche de 22 On the Ante - diluvial Volcanic Rocks near Clermont .
... ; the other attaining a considerable height , and remarkable for the abruptness with which it rises out of the midst of so level a plain , reminding us of the Roche de 22 On the Ante - diluvial Volcanic Rocks near Clermont .
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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.