Landscape Geology: A Plea for the Study of Geology by Landscape-paintersWm. Blackwood and Sons, 1891 - 63 páginas |
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... masses solely consisting of beds of rock laid at ascertainable angles , with divisions and breaks called joints and faults , and having certain cognisable outward shapes , the result of denudation . Geology is not what we look for in ...
... masses solely consisting of beds of rock laid at ascertainable angles , with divisions and breaks called joints and faults , and having certain cognisable outward shapes , the result of denudation . Geology is not what we look for in ...
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... masses of stone - strewn broadcast over the hills , or scattered from the hills over the plains - that have been let fall , so often among strange surroundings , from the grasp of the ice which , it is now part of common knowledge ...
... masses of stone - strewn broadcast over the hills , or scattered from the hills over the plains - that have been let fall , so often among strange surroundings , from the grasp of the ice which , it is now part of common knowledge ...
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... mass or weight , hardness or boldness , or even so much as proper confusion ; they are not even like real stone . The forsaken woman is rep- resented as shrinking , with clasped hands down- wrung , close in to the side of the one 28 ...
... mass or weight , hardness or boldness , or even so much as proper confusion ; they are not even like real stone . The forsaken woman is rep- resented as shrinking , with clasped hands down- wrung , close in to the side of the one 28 ...
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... masses on any rugged hillside . It is singular how few of them look like mere inert masses ; they look what they are - blocks arrested in the very act and attitude of falling : some of them sliding down the slope longways , in the line ...
... masses on any rugged hillside . It is singular how few of them look like mere inert masses ; they look what they are - blocks arrested in the very act and attitude of falling : some of them sliding down the slope longways , in the line ...
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... mass may be seen held up by a multitude of others , as if by a hundred hands . Their position , on a slope of 25 or 30 degrees , with the bank clear away below them , heightens the apparent imminence of their situation . The ground has ...
... mass may be seen held up by a multitude of others , as if by a hundred hands . Their position , on a slope of 25 or 30 degrees , with the bank clear away below them , heightens the apparent imminence of their situation . The ground has ...
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