 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 pages
...ywuuiKu, ginosco, to know), and our theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., 7eo, and \oyos, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations...easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a lulus, which see. GKEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 420 pages
...ginosco, to know), and our theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., yea, and kayos, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of...and other lofty mountains. Etym., glace, French for let. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it means an easy insensible... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...rinoreo, 10 know), and our theoretical speculations us . to its formation geology (Et'tm., yea, and ^0701, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in tlie Alps and other lofty mountains. Etym., glace, French for ice. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...mossesaurus differ from each other principally in the teeth and the vertebra?. GLACIER (Fr. glace, ice); vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. GLACIS (term of fortification); a borrowed term to express an easy insensible slope or declivity less... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1839 - 910 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystallised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in. parallel la\ers, which give it a striped aspect. « Geode. Geodiferous.... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1839 - 584 pages
...simple mineral, which is usually red and crystal- . lised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which give it a striped aspect. Geode. Geodiferous. G codes... | |
 | Henry Schenck Tanner - 1840 - 294 pages
...insentient or unorganized frame ; or of those masses of rock, strata, minerals, &c. of which it is composed. Gneiss, a stratified primary rock, composed of the...granite, but having usually a larger proportion of mica, with a laminous texture. Graduation, the act of modifying or adjusting a roadway into a particular... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 500 pages
...ginosco, to know), and our theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., fta, and Aoyes, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of...hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. J'.tym., glace, French for ice. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it... | |
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 310 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystallised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which give it a striped aspect. Geology. A science which... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1841 - 630 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystalized. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which will give it a striped aspect. Geode. Geodiferous.... | |
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... logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. Etym., glace, French for ice. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity,... 
