 | Andrew Kippis - Explorers - 1843 - 456 pages
...persons, whom the want of supplies or the desire of relaxation might induce to enter the harbours. rock ; the strata of the latter are frequently arched...to such an excess that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized ; while in the soft state it must have been pushed up through the overlying beds.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1851 - 706 pages
...such remarkable flexure without being shattered into fragments As a passage between the quartz and thi sandstone can be traced, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the land stone having been heated to such an excess, ;hat it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized... | |
 | World - 1852 - 588 pages
...symmetry, and the appearance of some of the masses is in consequence most singular. As a passage hetween the quartz and sandstone can be traced, it seems probable...to such an excess that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized ; while in the soft state it must have been pushed up through the overlying be:ls.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...flexures without being shattered into fragments. As the quartz insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the sandstone having been heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...flexures without being shattered into fragments. As the quartz insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the sandstone having been heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...flexures without being shattered into fragments. As the quartz insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the sandstone having been heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...flexures without being shattered into fragments. As the quartz insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the sandstone having been heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...flexures without being shattered into fragments. As the quartz insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems probable that the former owes its origin to the sandstone having been heated to such a degree that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have... | |
 | R. D. Keynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 436 pages
...remarkable flexure without being shattered into fragments. As a passage between the quartz and the sandstone can be traced, it seems probable that the...to such an excess, that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have been pushed up through the overlying beds.... | |
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... that it became viscid, and upon cooling crystallized. While in the soft state it must have been pushed up through the overlying beds. In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great... 