somewhat at a point in this locality
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front (180º) and back marbled endpapers (cropped and conjoined; levels 0 1.00 240)
Volume contains only Henry T(homas). De la Beche (1796-1855 *), “On the Formation of Rocks in South Wales and South-Western England,” from Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Economic Geology in London. Volume 1 (1846) : 1-296
Stanford copy, no date of digitization
a (different, unmarbled) Stanford (Branner Geological Library) copy (of Vol. I entire) at archive.org.
from which these place’s —
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changes its place, so as to leave 2
in one place losing that character gradually in distance 2
from one place to another 4
matter from one place to another 5
place, and the matter 5
one place to another during the lapse of time 5
in one place, the shore being steep 7
place in tideless seas 8
now well known to have taken place 9
from one place to another, as different winds, causing breakers to fall in one direction and then in another 14
in one place as to be thrown 16
commonly off headlands, or amid the complication of banks at the mouths of rivers
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in many places, forming scarcely less important accumulations of the matter 18
near which latter place 21
at the former place 31
place somewhat at a point in this locality 32
renewed in the same place 32
place in shallow water, but 33
takes place) to contain 34
out of place here to enter 34
at which place the measurements 38
of parts took place round points 42
in one place than at another 45
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its solution in one place by percolating waters 47
the one mass supplies the place of the other 48
in one place than in another. We have also to consider, when 67
varied masses of varied accumulations in one place 68
would agree but little with the accumulations of a similar kind now taking place, or with 78
in one place, and their scarcity in another 80
south of the latter place. 82
in rocks, the place of which 89
its place along the lines of strike 91
of the time in one place than in another. Viewing 97
into beds, took place, and upon this a molten sheet of serpentine... was poured forth 101
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sometimes in one place, sometimes in another, becoming so enveloped 104
life taking place. 104
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the accumulations which subsequently took place 112
changes which have taken place 113
in any one place. This thickness 131
while the change was taking place 137
having taken place anterior to its production 138
in one place more abundantly than in another 141
occupy the place of the farewell rock or millstone series, though this is not clear 158
that such subsidence and filling up took place 179
and more in one place than another 180
soft ground, or a shallow muddy place 181
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we do not see the probable place 182
several places still retain the name of Cockshoot 189
and other place 213
more mingled with mud in one place than in another, and even be replaced by it 216
in one place than another. 217
at the latter place 218
place perpendicularly to the plane before noticed 218
are not more disturbed than at the latter place 220
changes which have taken place 222
place, and in it is thrust 223
In this manner we obtain an infinite variety of differences, observable often within short distances. 230
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in many places 230
more in some places than in others 233
One can be so followed for twelve miles 235
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various modifications would take place, and thus a variety 245
crossing from the vicinity of the latter place 246
not yet removed by the breakers. Near the landing-place 249
and the latter place 249
sea and land took place, as they must 250
consequent on the great bending and contortions which took place immediately 251
place to the first rise 260
succeeded by perfect tranquility 265
near the latter place, there is some difficulty, locally, in seeing 275
on the north of that place, upon the old red 279
the latter place it is first seen 280
in one place covered 280
the latter place, where we have some beds, reposing 287
A great interruption of deposits now took place 294
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De la Beche, first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, derived his resources and leisure from a plantation (and slaves) in Jamaica. I ruminate about the depths and obscurities, surfacings and effacements &c., in his science, in the revealed depths and distances of the earth and time, in these marbled endpapers.
tags:
accumulations; bending and contortion; distances; interruption; mud
H. T. De la Beche, “On the Formation of Rocks” (1846)