 GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 265by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...contain. According to Sir Charles Lyell, " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influences which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet."... | |
 | Bridget Margaret Sortain - Biography - 1861 - 476 pages
...and inorganic kingdoms of nature, and inquires into the causes of those changes, and the influence they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet ;' * both as to the space and time which it embraces, it can yield to astronomy alone. The world is... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influences which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet." 2. The earth has not always existed in its present condition, and geology gives us a view of its history... | |
 | 1865 - 484 pages
...modest ; let us see what he proposes : — " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...into the causes of these changes, and the influence they have exerted in modifying the external structure of our planet." It is getting worse and worse,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1867 - 746 pages
...SCIENCES NOT TO BE CONFOC.VUKD WITH COSMOUOXY. EOLOGY is the science which investigates the succes' sive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...NOT TO BE CONFOUNDED WITH COSMOGONY. f^ EOLOGT is the science which investigates the succesVT sive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature ; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - Science - 1874 - 800 pages
...chieftain, Sir Charles Lyell, said, " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes which have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms...the surface and external structure of our planet" That is, they had to give the means of studying not only the animal and vegetable contents of the rocks... | |
 | Ireland - 1833 - 738 pages
...must investigate the effects of her operations in former epochs." As geology professes to treat of the changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature, the student of this branch of knowledge must have a previous acquaintance, in a greater or less degree,... | |
 | Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club - Natural history - 1880 - 382 pages
...greatest geologists, Sir Charles Lyell : " Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet." This is the technical or restricted and modern meaning of Geology. But let us, for a moment, consider... | |
 | Natural history - 1892 - 660 pages
...Russell Orcutt, pages S99-919). Lyell says: — "Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet." • In the decade commencing with 1850 the more depressed part of the Colorado desert seems to have... | |
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