A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History |
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... marine formation , 5. 6. Gypsum , the second freshwater formation , and marine marls , . 322 323 Marvellous animal skeletons of the gypsum beds , 325 • 7. The superior sandstones , and marine sands , 333 8. The third freshwater ...
... marine formation , 5. 6. Gypsum , the second freshwater formation , and marine marls , . 322 323 Marvellous animal skeletons of the gypsum beds , 325 • 7. The superior sandstones , and marine sands , 333 8. The third freshwater ...
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... marine deposition was slow and tranquil , disturbing the general economy of nature no more than at present , and consequently , not interfering with the production of marine testaceous animals , nor with the distribution of their shelly ...
... marine deposition was slow and tranquil , disturbing the general economy of nature no more than at present , and consequently , not interfering with the production of marine testaceous animals , nor with the distribution of their shelly ...
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... marine shells . " Thus , " says Mr. Conybeare in his excellent introduction to the Geology of England and Wales , " If we examine a collection of fossils from the chalk of Flamborough Head , Dover Cliff , Paris , or Poland , 8 species ...
... marine shells . " Thus , " says Mr. Conybeare in his excellent introduction to the Geology of England and Wales , " If we examine a collection of fossils from the chalk of Flamborough Head , Dover Cliff , Paris , or Poland , 8 species ...
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... marine animals . Yet Voltaire , supposing these shells to countenance the Mosaic narrative of the deluge , ( though , in fact , they do not belong to that event , but to prior epochs of the world , ) issued the following infidel ...
... marine animals . Yet Voltaire , supposing these shells to countenance the Mosaic narrative of the deluge , ( though , in fact , they do not belong to that event , but to prior epochs of the world , ) issued the following infidel ...
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... marine mollusca in the living state , and of the fibres of animals and vegetables , after death ; the lucid points of the moon's disc , where the sunbeams do not fall , all attest that light may exist Light existed before the sun and is ...
... marine mollusca in the living state , and of the fibres of animals and vegetables , after death ; the lucid points of the moon's disc , where the sunbeams do not fall , all attest that light may exist Light existed before the sun and is ...
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