The bottom of this cavity is occupied by water to about a third of its superficial extent ; the remainder is a plain, on which the village of Meerfeld is seated. The most southerly point of this district, on which volcanic products have been met with,... The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 1481826Full view - About this book
| 1826 - 628 pages
...these rocks, which are only partially covered by a sprinkling of ashes, puzzolana, pulverized shte, and other fragmentary matter. The bottom of this cavity...augite, appears to have been emitted from clefts in the greywacke, on three or four neighbouring [ioints, upon the very brink of the steep slope, or rather... | |
| 1826 - 434 pages
...':• ; c. The most southerly point- of this^distfict, on which volcanic products have been met witbj, is the vicinity of the baths of Bertrich, a village...the Moselle. • ••; . Here a lava, which has corigealed into an exceedingly hard, tough, and compact basalt, full of crystals of olivin and augite,... | |
| 1826 - 418 pages
...sandstone, forming the north base of Moseberg ; and the steep walls which encircle it, exhibit, on many points, the abrupt sections of these rocks, which...augite, appears to have been emitted from clefts in the greywacke, on three or four neighbouring points, upon the very brink of the steep slope, or rather... | |
| George Poulett Scrope - 1862 - 522 pages
...vicinity of the baths of Bertrich, a village seated at the bottom of the deep and narrow mountain-gorge of the river Isbach, which flows at the distance of...hard, tough, and compact basalt, full of crystals of olivine and augite, appears to have been emitted from clefts in the greywacke, on three or four neighbouring... | |
| George Poulett Scrope - 1872 - 592 pages
...vicinity of the baths of Bertrich, a village seated at the bottom of the deep and narrow mountain-gorge of the river Isbach, which flows at the distance of...hard, tough, and compact basalt, full of crystals of olivine and augite, appears to have been emitted from clefts in the greywacke, on three or four neighbouring... | |
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