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Principles Of Geology (1835) By Charles Lyell 2009 Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “The covers corners and edges have light wear. Clean pages / text. Tight binding.”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Japan
- Pages
- 246
- Item Condition
- Very Good
- Subject
- Science & Technology
- Publisher's Location
- Danvers, MA
- ISBN
- 9780217921312
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
General Books LLC
ISBN-10
0217921310
ISBN-13
9780217921312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
123788967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Principles of Geology
Number of Pages
254 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geology
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
550
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...with their inhabitants and large herds of cattle. Thds three villages, with their entire population, were covered, when the mountain of Piz fell in 1772, in the district of Tre-viso, in the state of Venice; and part of Mount Grenier, south of Chambery, in Savoy, which fell down in the year 1248, buried five parishes, including the town and church of St. Andre, the ruins occupying an extent of about nine square miles. The number of lives lost by the slide of the Ross-berg, in Switzerland, in 1806, was estimated at more than 800, a great number of the bodies, as well as several villages and scattered houses, being buried deep under mud and rock. In the same country, several hundred cottages, with eighteen of their inhabitants and a great number of cows, goats, and sheep, were victims to the sudden fall of a bed of stones, thirty yards deep, which descended from the summits of the Diablerets. In the year 1618, a portion of Mount Conto fell, in the county of Chiavenna in Switzerland, and buried the town of Pleurs with all its inhabitants, to the number of 2430. j-Ann. des Sci. Nat., tome xii. p. 117. Feb. 1831. Malte-Bruns Geog., vol. i. p. 435. Bakewell, Travels in the Tarentaise, vol. i. p. 201. It is unnecessary to multiply examples of similar local catastrophes, which, however numerous they may have been in mountainous parts of Europe, within the historical period, have been, nevertheless, of rare occurrence when compared to events of the same kind which have taken place in regions convulsed by earthquakes. It is then that enormous masses of rock and earth, even in comparatively low and level countries, are detached from the sides of valleys, and cast down into the river-courses, and often so unexpectedly that thej..., 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 VI. LAWS WHICH REGULATE THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION Of Species'continued. Geographical distribution of animals ? Buffon on specific distinctness of quadrupeds of old and new world ? Different regions of indigenous mammalia ? Quadrupeds in islands ? Range of the Cetacea?Dispersion of quadrupeds (p. 54.) ? their powers of swimming ? Migratory instincts? Drifting of animals on ice-floes (p. 61.)? On floating islands of drift- timber ? Migrations of Cetacea ? Habitations of birds (p. 67.) ? Their migrations and facilities of diffusion ? Distribution of reptiles, and their powers of dissemination. Geographical distribution of animals. ? Although in speculating on philosophical possibilities, said Buffon, the same temperature might have been expected, all other circumstances being equal, to produce the same beings in different parts of the globe, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, yet it is an undoubted fact, that when America was discovered, its indigenous quadrupeds were all dissimilar to those previously known in the old world. The elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the camelopard, the camel, the dromedary, the buffalo, the horse, the ass, the lion, the tiger, the apes, the baboons, and a number of other mammalia, were nowhere to be met with on the new continent; while in the old, the American species, of the same great class, were nowhere to be seen ? the tapir, the lama, the pecari, the jaguar, the couguar, the agouti, the paca, the coati, and the sloth. These phenomena, although few in number relatively to the whole animate creation, were so striking and so positive in their nature, that the great French naturalist caught sight at once of a general law in the geographical distribution of organic beings, namely, the limitation of g...
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