Outlines of Geology: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution in the Year 1816J. Murray, 1817 - 144 pages |
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abundant alluvial Alumine appear argillaceous Aviemore basalt beautiful beds Ben Nevis bodies Britain Buffon Burnet called caverns chain chalk Charnwood forest chasms clay coal coast colours contains Cornwall cracks and fissures crust crystalline crystals curious deposited Derbyshire durable earth's surface elevated England especially favourable feet felspar formation former fossil fracture fragments geologists geology globe granite granite district horizontal hornblende Hutton igneous fusion inclined irregular John Playfair John Whitehurst land Land's end layers LECTURE lime limestone magnesia marble materials matter metallic mica mica slate mineral montagnes mountains nature observed occur ocean oxide of iron peculiar phenomena Playfair porphyry precipices present primary rocks primitive produced quarries quartz red sandstone rivers sandstone Scotland secondary rocks secondary strata serpentine shew siliceous siliceous earth six-sided slaty sometimes spar steatite stone strata stratification substances summits Syenitic texture tion transition rocks varieties veins of granite vertical Werner Wernerians Whitehurst William Whiston Woodward