Annals of Philosophy, Volume 22Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Agriculture |
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... masses , of a pretty pure black limestone , highly impregnated with bitumen ( swinestone , anthra- colite , Werner ) occur every where in this alumslate . Round balls of sulphuret of iron and sulphate of barytes are likewise not rare ...
... masses , of a pretty pure black limestone , highly impregnated with bitumen ( swinestone , anthra- colite , Werner ) occur every where in this alumslate . Round balls of sulphuret of iron and sulphate of barytes are likewise not rare ...
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... mass being either siliceous slate or hornstone , or compact feldspar . The sandstone passes distinctly into this porphyry . Breccia of bits of porphyry cemented together by compact feldspar and syenite likewise occur . The syenite is ...
... mass being either siliceous slate or hornstone , or compact feldspar . The sandstone passes distinctly into this porphyry . Breccia of bits of porphyry cemented together by compact feldspar and syenite likewise occur . The syenite is ...
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... mass of transition rocks occurs near Falkjoping , where a large plain of sandstone extends from the sources of the river Lidaa to the mouth of the river Tidaa over nearly 30 miles . Upon this plain rest three similar plains of limestone ...
... mass of transition rocks occurs near Falkjoping , where a large plain of sandstone extends from the sources of the river Lidaa to the mouth of the river Tidaa over nearly 30 miles . Upon this plain rest three similar plains of limestone ...
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... mass . It is of course traversed , like the adjacent rocks , by metallic and other veins . This passes , as is well known , by a rapid transition into the common killas or clayslate . Before entering on the consi- deration of this , by ...
... mass . It is of course traversed , like the adjacent rocks , by metallic and other veins . This passes , as is well known , by a rapid transition into the common killas or clayslate . Before entering on the consi- deration of this , by ...
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... masses with which they are most largely and closely associated , be admitted , we shall have difficulty in recognising in the numerous elvans by which it is traversed , the crystalline analogue of the killas . The substance occasionally ...
... masses with which they are most largely and closely associated , be admitted , we shall have difficulty in recognising in the numerous elvans by which it is traversed , the crystalline analogue of the killas . The substance occasionally ...
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