 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...ytvuaKw, ginosco, to know,) and our theoretical speculations as to its formation geology, (Elym., yta, and Xoyoc, logos, a discourse. GLACIER. The vast accumulations...or declivity, less steep than a talus, which see. GRAMINEJB, the order of plants to which grasses belong. Etym., gramen, grass. GRANITE. An unstralified... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym,, yea, and \oyos, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the...easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a talut, which see. GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 422 pages
...theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., 7eo, and \oyos, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the...easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a lulus, which see. GKEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., yea, and kayos, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the...and other lofty mountains. Etym., glace, French for let. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it means an easy insensible... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...as to its formation geology (Etym., y», and \eyet, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulation* of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty...easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a tulu*, which see. GNEISS. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...mossesaurus differ from each other principally in the teeth and the vertebra?. GLACIER (Fr. glace, ice); vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. GLACIS (term of fortification); a borrowed term to express an easy insensible slope or declivity less... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1839 - 584 pages
...simple mineral, which is usually red and crystal- . lised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in parallel layers, which give it a striped aspect. Geode. Geodiferous. G codes... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1839 - 910 pages
...Garnet. A simple mineral, which is usually red and crystallised. It is abundant in most primitive rocks. Gneiss. A stratified primary rock, composed of the same materials as granite, but the mica is distributed in. parallel la\ers, which give it a striped aspect. « Geode. Geodiferous.... | |
 | Henry Schenck Tanner - Canals - 1840 - 294 pages
...insentient or unorganized frame ; or of those masses of rock, strata, minerals, &c. of which it is composed. Gneiss, a stratified primary rock, composed of the...granite, but having usually a larger proportion of mica, with a laminous texture. Graduation, the act of modifying or adjusting a roadway into a particular... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 500 pages
...theoretical speculations as to its formation geology (Etym., fta, and Aoyes, logos, a discourse). GLACIER. Vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. J'.tym., glace, French for ice. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it... | |
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The vast accumulations of ice and hardened snow in the Alps and other lofty mountains. Etym. glace, French for ice. GLACIS. A term borrowed from the language of fortification, where it means an easy insensible slope or declivity, less steep than a talus,... 
