 | Science - 1855 - 490 pages
...the wind — the effects of the'sand were visible : there was not a point untouched, the grains had engraved their track on every stone. Even quartz was...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. When the surface acted on, was vertical and charged with garnets, a very... | |
 | 1855 - 990 pages
...the wind — the effects of the sand were visible : there was not a point untouched, the grains had engraved their track on every stone. Even quartz was...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. When the surface acted on, was vertical and charged with garnets, a very... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 384 pages
...upon the feldspar of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected least. Wherever a garnet or a lump of quartz was imbedded in compact...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. When the surface acted on was vertical, and charged with garnets, a very... | |
 | Geology - 1855 - 484 pages
...the wind — the effects of the sand were visible : there was not a point untouched, the grains had engraved their track on every stone. Even quartz was...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. When the surface acted on, was vertical and charged with garnets, a very... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 414 pages
...upon the feldspar of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected least. Wherever a garnet or a lump of quartz was imbedded in compact...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. relief, mounted on the end of a long pedicle of feldspar, which had been... | |
 | 1856 - 384 pages
...upon the feldspar of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected least. Wherever a garnet or a lump of quartz was imbedded in compact...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. relief, mounted on the end of a long pedicle of feldspar, which had been... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1856 - 964 pages
...upon the feldspar of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected least. Wherever a garnet or a lump of quartz was imbedded in compact...also stood out in relief, forming an elevated string, osar-like, under their lee. When the surface acted on was vertical, and charged with garnets, a very... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 430 pages
...of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected the least. Whenever a garnet or lump of quartz was imbedded in compact feldspar and...general surface. A portion, however, of the feldspar upon the lee side of the garnets, being protected fi'om the action of the sand by the superior hardness... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 426 pages
...of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected the least. Whenever a garnet or lump of quartz was imbedded in compact feldspar and...the hard mineral, which was thus left standing in wnw above the general surface. A portion, however, of the feldspar upon the 1«* side of the garnets,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 428 pages
...of the granite being the most rapid, and the garnets being affected the least. Whenever a garnet or lump of quartz was imbedded in compact feldspar and...presented to the action of the sand, the feldspar was out away around the hard mineral, which was thus left standing in relief above the general surface.... | |
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... least. Whenever a garnet or a lump of quartz was imbedded in compact feldspar and favorably presented to the action of the sand, the feldspar was cut away around the hard mineral, which was thus left standing in relief above the general surface. A... 
