Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System |
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... space . * * A period anterior to any definite arrangement of the materials of the earth seems to be mentioned in Gen. i . , 1 , 2 : " In the beginning God B Fig . 11. Comparative volume of the earth in 38 SKETCHES OF CREATION .
... space . * * A period anterior to any definite arrangement of the materials of the earth seems to be mentioned in Gen. i . , 1 , 2 : " In the beginning God B Fig . 11. Comparative volume of the earth in 38 SKETCHES OF CREATION .
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... period . The demands of nature for material from which to lay the thick and massive foundations of the stratified pile of rocks were enormous , and it is probable that whole mountains were quarried level by the energies of this young ...
... period . The demands of nature for material from which to lay the thick and massive foundations of the stratified pile of rocks were enormous , and it is probable that whole mountains were quarried level by the energies of this young ...
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... period could have had no other than a chemical origin . Common limestone is composed , as every one knows , of carbonic acid and lime . Heat , as the manufacturer of lime illustrates , expels the carbonic acid in the form of 58 SKETCHES ...
... period could have had no other than a chemical origin . Common limestone is composed , as every one knows , of carbonic acid and lime . Heat , as the manufacturer of lime illustrates , expels the carbonic acid in the form of 58 SKETCHES ...
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... a vegetable form has been descried . It was not by any means a rich fauna , but a single species , which populated the sea even in the Laurentian period . The faint tracery Fig . 17. Structure of the oldest known Fossil ( A RAY OF LIFE .
... a vegetable form has been descried . It was not by any means a rich fauna , but a single species , which populated the sea even in the Laurentian period . The faint tracery Fig . 17. Structure of the oldest known Fossil ( A RAY OF LIFE .
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... period of almost total lifelessness - the Eozoic TIME - it will be remembered , was brought to a close by the upheaval of a long ridge of land , extending from the coast of Labrador to the northern shores of the great lakes , and thence ...
... period of almost total lifelessness - the Eozoic TIME - it will be remembered , was brought to a close by the upheaval of a long ridge of land , extending from the coast of Labrador to the northern shores of the great lakes , and thence ...
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Page i - SKETCHES OF CREATION. Sketches of Creation: a Popular View of some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System. By ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D., Professor of Geology, Zoology, and Botany in the University of Michigan, and Director of the State Geological Survey.