The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... masses cracked across with a true slaty fracture , square and straight , breaking under slight pressure . Some bent like fresh clay . All laminated easily . A large number of specimens con- tained shells ; some of the older masses had ...
... masses cracked across with a true slaty fracture , square and straight , breaking under slight pressure . Some bent like fresh clay . All laminated easily . A large number of specimens con- tained shells ; some of the older masses had ...
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... mass of small imbedded stones . As these sink deeper , the clay laps over them , and begins catching a new layer of pebbles on its fresh surface . Some less recent balls which we brought up from the bed were two feet in circumfer- ence ...
... mass of small imbedded stones . As these sink deeper , the clay laps over them , and begins catching a new layer of pebbles on its fresh surface . Some less recent balls which we brought up from the bed were two feet in circumfer- ence ...
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... mass . But the pebbles in any conglomerate might easily have been the detritus rolled from hypogene rocks down the bed of a stream with tenacious clay banks like the Republican . This view opened to me a new field of speculation upon ...
... mass . But the pebbles in any conglomerate might easily have been the detritus rolled from hypogene rocks down the bed of a stream with tenacious clay banks like the Republican . This view opened to me a new field of speculation upon ...
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... mass not distinctly crystalline that I have ever seen . It was as hard as iron , of a nearly similar weight , and about three feet in circum- ference . 8. Near our first ford I found a small outcrop of impure shaly - brown coal , of no ...
... mass not distinctly crystalline that I have ever seen . It was as hard as iron , of a nearly similar weight , and about three feet in circum- ference . 8. Near our first ford I found a small outcrop of impure shaly - brown coal , of no ...
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... masses beautiful as a dream . Still a little later , then the rosy changed to golden ; and when the sun first showed his edge , the water was turned to a sheet of topaz fire . With advancing dawn , large game broke into view . I thought ...
... masses beautiful as a dream . Still a little later , then the rosy changed to golden ; and when the sun first showed his edge , the water was turned to a sheet of topaz fire . With advancing dawn , large game broke into view . I thought ...
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