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Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology by the Rev. William Buckland By William Buckland University of Michigan Library Paperback (480 pages) List Price: $29.99* Lowest New Price: $29.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:01 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org

Geology and Mineralogy considered with Reference to Natural Theology By William Buckland BiblioBazaar Paperback (476 pages) List Price: $28.99* Lowest New Price: $28.99* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:01 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Proper Subjects of Geological Inquiry. The history of the earth forms a large and complex subject of inquiry, divisible at its outset, into two distinct branches ; the first, comprehending the history of unorganized mineral matter, and of the various changes through which it has advanced, from the creation of its component elements to its actual condition; the second, embracing the past history of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and the successive modifications which these two great departments of nature have undergone, during the chemical and mechanical operations that have affected the surface of our planet. As the study of both these branches forms the subject of the science of Geology, it is no less important to examine the nature and action of the physical forces, that have affected unorganized mineral bodies, than to investigate the laws of life, and varied conditions of organization, that prevailed while the crust of our globe was in process of formation. Before we enter on the history of fossil animals and vegetables, we must therefore first briefly review the progressive stages of mineral formations; and see how far we can discover in the chemical constitution, and mechanical arrangement of the materials of the earth, proofs of general prospective adaptation to the economy of animal and vegetable life. As far as our planet is concerned, the first act of creation seems to have consisted in giving origin to the elements of the material world. These inorganic elements appear to have received no subsequent addition to their number, and VOL. I.- to have undergone no alteration in their nature and qualities; but to have been submitted at their creation to the self-same laws that regulate their actual condition, and to have continued subject to ...

Geology And Mineralogy Considered With Reference To Natural Theology - Vol. I By William Buckland Deutsch Press Paperback (636 pages) List Price: $35.45* Lowest New Price: $35.45* Lowest Used Price: $81.68* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:01 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Geology and Mineralogy Considered With Reference to Natural Theology (v.1) By William Buckland General Books LLC Paperback (292 pages) List Price: $25.89* Lowest New Price: $25.89* Lowest Used Price: $59.86* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:01 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Volume: v.1 Publisher: Philadelphia : Carey, Lea and Blanchard Publication date: 1837 Subjects: Paleontology Bible and geology Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Geology and mineralogy By William Buckland General Books LLC Paperback (198 pages) List Price: $11.32* Lowest New Price: $11.32* Lowest Used Price: $25.56* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 12:01 Pacific 8 Feb 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Craters. Our section represents three cases of Volcanic craters; the most simple (i. 5.) rising through Granite, or stratified rocks, at the bottom of the sea, and accumulating craters, which, like those of Lipari and Stromboli, Sabrina, and Graham Islands, are occasionally formed in various parts of the ocean. The second case is that of volcanos, which, like Etna and Vesuvius, are still in action on the dry land, (i. 1. to i. 4.) The third is that of extinct volcanos, like those in Auvergne, (h1. hc.) which, although there exist no historical records as to the period of their last eruptions, shew by the perfect condition of their craters, that they have been formed since the latest of those aqueous inundations, that have affected the Basalts and Tertiary strata, through which they have burst forth. One great difference between the more ancient Basaltic eruptions and those of the Lava and Trachyte of existing volcanos, is that the emission of the former, probably taking place under the pressure of deep water, was not accompanied by the fonnation of any permanent craters. In both cases, the fissures through some of which these Eruptions may have issued, are abundantly apparent under the upward passage of the Lava through fractures in the solid Granite. At Graveneire, near Clermont, a stream of Lava still retains the exact form, in which it issued through a fissure in the side of a mountain of Granite, and overflowed the subjacent valley. Most accurate representations of this, and many similar productions of Volcanic Eruptions from the Granite of this District may be seen in Mr. Poulett Scrope's inimitable Panoramic Views of the Volcanic formations of Central France. Within the last few years, the Volcanic Cones of Sabrina in the Atlantic, and of Graham Island in ...

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