 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...gramineee they constitute what writers on botanical geography often call glumaceee. DEBACLE. A great rush of waters, which breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., debacler, French, to unbar, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long-continued frost.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 562 pages
...graminete they constitute what writers on botanical geography often call glumaceee. DEBACLE. A great rush of waters, which breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., debacler, French, to unbar, to break up as a river doe) at the cessation of a long-continued frost.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 420 pages
...barriers, carries forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., ddbacler, French, to unbar, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long continued frost. DELTA. When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 pages
...forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., deader, French, to unlmr, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long continued frost. DELTA. When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams,... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...a crystalline texture. Sugar candy and calcareous spar are crystallized. Debacle. — A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Delta. — When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams, they often... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 pages
...barriers, carries forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., debader, French, to unbar, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long-continued frost. separate streams, they often diverge and form two sides of a triangle, the sea being the base. The... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pages
...graminecb, they constitute what writers on botanical geography often call glumacea. DEBACLE. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers,...the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in iu course. Etym., debacler, French, to unbar, to break up, as a river does at the cessation of a long-continued... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...call glumaota. DEBACLE. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barricrs, carrics forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., debaclfr, French, to unbar, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long-continued frost.... | |
 | Missouri. State geologist, George Clinton Swallow - 1855 - 496 pages
...by the action of water or frost. Debacle. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposiug barriers, carries forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Delta. When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams, they often diverge... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1875 - 586 pages
...unbar, to break up аз a river does at ihe cessation of a long-continued frost). Geol. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing- barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Débilitants (L. debilis, weak). Remedies given to allay excitement. Debridement (Fr. débrider, to... | |
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DELTA. When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams, they often diverge and form two sides of a triangle, the sea being the base. The land included by the three lines, and which is invariably alluvial, was first called,... 
