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id: 33760
author: Udden, Johan August
title: Fossil Ice Crystals: An Instance of the Practical Value of "Pure Science"
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  All observations made on crystals of this kind indicate local differences in the forms of ice crystals presumably due to differences in the rate of freezing, in the texture of the mud and probably in variations in water content of the mud. I found this check in the discovery of the layer which carries ice crystal markings in these beds.


id: 14999
author: Pemble, William
title: A Briefe Introduction to Geography
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sentence: 627
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  [Footnote 2: Of this Hypothesis see _Wrights_ errors of navigation.] 1 To describe an Æquinoctiall planispheare, draw a circle (_ACBD_) and inscribe in it two diameters (_AB_) & (_CD_) cutting each other at right angles, and the whole circle into foure quadrants: each whereof devide into 90. Mr WILLIAM PEMBLE_, Master_ _of Arts, of Magdalen Hall in Oxford._ _OXFORD_ Printed by IOHN LICHFIELD Printer to the Famous Vniversity for EDWARD FORREST _Ann.


id: 39621
author: Cook, Samuel
title: The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland
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  Their infinite gradation may be fairly described by certain well-known lines, and substituting the word caves for the name of the most lively insects of the genus pulex-- Big caves have little caves And lesser caves about 'em; These caves have other caves, And so _ad infinitum_. Other caves also were explored, but it was found that the bones obtained from them were of recent origin.


id: 17354
author: Owen, Luella Agnes
title: Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills
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  The comparison suggested is an Egyptian temple, and the idea is continued within, where there are no chambers as in other caves; but instead, the entire interior is a labyrinth of passages winding about in every direction among an uncounted number of low massive pillars, some supporting a low ceiling and others connected by high arches, the highest point being estimated at sixty feet, but appearing to be more, because the enclosed space rising to a dome is so narrow that the point of view is necessarily directly underneath. In the tourist season the guides have not time during the day to bring out specimens to supply the demand, so on this account night trips are of frequent occurrence; and on these occasions the number of persons in all that vast space seldom exceeds half a dozen, but their voices and laughter, and the blows of their hammers, can be heard at greater distances than would seem possible, and give an agreeable sense of companionship; yet the voice does not travel by any means so far as in other caves.


id: 53063
author: Baker, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert)
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title:
  The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere

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  Most likely, when we get farther, if we succeed in passing the present obstacles, we shall soon find ourselves entering the canals and water caverns that lie on the same level as the great natural reservoirs of Wookey Hole; in other words, we are approaching the plane of saturation. Such a formation is not rare in water caverns; but in such beauty of shape and hue it is rare indeed, for these tender little crystal flowers took all manner of forms, blossoming ofttimes into wreaths and clusters like a miniature coral.


id: 58361
author: Curzon, Robert
title: Armenia: A year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia
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words: 56868
sentence: 1800
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  From the above account it appears that much injustice may probably be carried on by the inferior officers of the government which never gets to the ears of the Pasha, small officials being notoriously more tyrannical than greater men. The translator of an almost forgotten tongue, the laborious compiler of unpublished history, requires that the musty chronicles, the splendid illuminated volumes bound in gold and velvet, the crabbed, ill-written works of antique lore, should be laid upon the table before him, so that, in the undisturbed silence of his study, surrounded with lexicons and modern books of reference, he may bit by bit extract the pith, and winnow off the chaff, from the venerable manuscripts of distant lands and other times.


id: 43826
author: Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville)
title: The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers.
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  When the geologist finds, as he frequently does, buried in mountain rocks the fossil remains of creatures that must have lived in the sea (and often very similar to those living there now), he is compelled to think of the gigantic upheavals that must have taken place before those remains could arrive at their present elevated position. Devonian rocks, 324. Diablerets, fall of rock from, 98. Dislocations of mountain rocks, 313, 315. Dust, volcanic, 245, 260.


id: 52216
author: Balch, Edwin Swift
title: Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns
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  On Spruce Creek, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, about four kilometers north of the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, is an ice bearing talus, known locally as the Ice Holes or Ice Caves. Mr. Ira C. Chatham, postmaster at Farrandsville, wrote to me on the 19th of October, 1898, as follows: Your paper on Ice Caves [Journal of the Franklin Institute, March, 1897] at pp. 177 and 178 describes the Farrandsville Cave as near as is possible, as the ice forms in the spring from the snow melting and dropping through the rocks into the cave, and the rocks face directly north as stated.


id: 14012
author: Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)
title: Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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  It is found that the hotter the day, the stronger is the current of cold air; in winter the direction of the current is changed, and it blows into the rock instead of out from it.[190] De Saussure's theory, as developed by M. Pictet, was no doubt satisfactory, so far as it was used to account for the phenomenon of 'cold-caves,' but it seems to be insufficient as an explanation of the existence of large masses of subterranean ice; of which, by the way, De Saussure must have been entirely ignorant, for he makes no allusion to such ice, and the temperatures of the coldest of his caves were considerably above the freezing point. Considering that his ideas were confined to his cattle and their requirements, and that water is often very difficult to find in that part of the Jura, a _hot_ summer would probably mean with him a _dry_ summer, that is, a summer which does not send down much water to thaw the columns in the cave.


id: 18562
author: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
title: Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography
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  Moreover, this view does not provide any explanation of the fact that volcanoes are in some way connected with actions which go on on the floors of great water basins. In this condition not only is the excessive flow of surface water diminished, but the moisture which creeps down the slope from the wooded area tends to keep the lower-lying fields in a better state for tillage, and promotes the decay of the underlying rocks, and thus adds to the body and richness of the earth.


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  f. w. graff j. m. bryant d. b. casteel frederic duncalf r. h. griffith j. l. henderson i. p. hildebrand e. j. mathews


