Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... lava - streams consist of a continuous fluidity , but of loose scoriæ , and even of a series of ejected blocks and rubbish ; there are ejections of stones which have not all been glowing , pp . 308 , 330 , 332-337 , 343-347 , note 99 ...
... lava - streams consist of a continuous fluidity , but of loose scoriæ , and even of a series of ejected blocks and rubbish ; there are ejections of stones which have not all been glowing , pp . 308 , 330 , 332-337 , 343-347 , note 99 ...
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... lava , the vicinity of magnetic poles , and the heat of the soil , which probably has the effect of diminishing this force , combined to produce the most opposite local disturbances . See my Voyage aux Régions Equinoxiales , t . iii ...
... lava , the vicinity of magnetic poles , and the heat of the soil , which probably has the effect of diminishing this force , combined to produce the most opposite local disturbances . See my Voyage aux Régions Equinoxiales , t . iii ...
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... lava , as I have often observed on Vesuvius and different American volcanoes . ( Humboldt , Voy . aux Régions Equinox . , t . i , pp . 116 , 277 , 288. ) In order to try whether the deep interior portions of the body of the earth ...
... lava , as I have often observed on Vesuvius and different American volcanoes . ( Humboldt , Voy . aux Régions Equinox . , t . i , pp . 116 , 277 , 288. ) In order to try whether the deep interior portions of the body of the earth ...
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... lava tidal wave , moving the solid crust above it , " at the British Association Meeting for 1850 ( p . 20 ) . Poisson also , with whom I have often spoken regarding the hypothesis of the subterranean ebb and flow , caused by the sun ...
... lava tidal wave , moving the solid crust above it , " at the British Association Meeting for 1850 ( p . 20 ) . Poisson also , with whom I have often spoken regarding the hypothesis of the subterranean ebb and flow , caused by the sun ...
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... lava from Vesuvius in September , 1805 , has the merit of having submitted the chemical hypotheses to a strict criticism . He seeks for the cause of volcanic phenomena in a " very energetic and still unsatis- fied affinity between the ...
... lava from Vesuvius in September , 1805 , has the merit of having submitted the chemical hypotheses to a strict criticism . He seeks for the cause of volcanic phenomena in a " very energetic and still unsatis- fied affinity between the ...
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