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" In some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, and evident indications of Lava currents streaming outwards in all directions, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes. "
Elements of Astronomy ...: With Explanatory Notes, and Questions for Examination - Page 162
by John Brocklesby - 1855 - 321 pages
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Astronomy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegrcei* or the Puy de Dome. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes. t What is, moreover, extremely singular in the geology...
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Astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei* or the Puy de Dome. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes, t What is, moreover, extremely singular in the geology...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how for the Former Changes ..., Volume 2

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegrai, or the Puy de Dome. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes." * M. Hoffmann set out on his travels through Italy...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 58

1834 - 596 pages
...the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei or the Puy do Dome. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes.* What is, moreover, extremely singular in the geology...
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Researches in Theoretical Geology

Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1834 - 440 pages
...the moon's surface which justify him in concluding, that on some of the lunar mountains there are " decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter*." Now the volcanic eruptions of the moon must be very different from those on the surface of the earth,...
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Geology in 1835: A Popular Sketch of the Progress, Leading Features, and ...

John Laurance - Geology - 1835 - 152 pages
...phenomena where we have a whole hemisphere open to our inspec* Sir John Herschel says, " there are decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter in the moon." 134 tion, by comparing the best of the earliest delineations of its telescopic appearances...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 53

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 614 pages
...the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei, or the Puy de D6me. And in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes.' Our readers will recollect how convincingly Mr. Lyell...
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Tales about the sun, moon, and stars

Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...short, in its highest perfection, the true volcanic character ; and, in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes." The appearance of these " cup-shaped" summits, or...
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English Reading Lessons: To Serve as an Introduction to the Models of ...

English literature - 1843 - 234 pages
...in short, like volcanoes, and have the true volcanic character: and in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes. What is, moreover, extremely singular in the geology...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1847 - 490 pages
...volcanic character, as it may be seen in the crater of Vesuvius; and in some of the principal ones, decisive marks of volcanic stratification, arising from successive deposits of ejected matter, may be clearly traced with powerful telescopes. The moon's surface presents no appearance of the existence...
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