Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, Volume 9Gloucester., 1890 - Gloucestershire (England) |
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Ammonites appear Birdlip Bourton-on-the-Water Carboniferous char Cheltenham Church Cirencester clay Cleeve Hill Clypeus coins colour Cotteswold Cotteswold Club Crickley cross cutting deposit dinner district Dr Wright Dundry Eels eggs Etheridge examined feet female fertile Field Meeting fish Forest Marble Forest of Dean fossils Fuller's Earth gayal genus Geological Gloucester granite granulite Gryphæa Haresfield hatched Howietoun hybrid inches Inferior Oolite larvæ Leckhampton Limestone Lochleven trout Lower Coral Bed Lucy Lycett male Malvern miles milt Nailsworth Nerinæa Notgrove observed occur Old Red Oolite Marl Pea Grit pebbles Pisolite present President proceeded Professor Buckman published in Vol quarry quartz read a paper remarkable Rhætic Rhynchonella river River Frome rocks Roman salmon Sands Sandstone Selsley Severn shell Silurian species specimens stone strata Stroud temperature Terebratula thickness tray Trigonia Grit Upper Freestone Upper Lias visited volcano W. S. Symonds Wethered WITC Witchell young
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Page 256 - To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a globe of water or glass, as large as a football,1 to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be more coarse grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarsegrained than a heap of footballs.
Page 163 - ... at the same time the sea immediately adjoining the plain dried up about two hundred paces, so that the fish were left on the sand a prey to the inhabitants of Pozzuoli. At last, on the 29th of September, about two o'clock in the night, the earth opened...
Page 162 - When we first reach it the probabilities are that the surface of the lake is coated over with a black, solidified crust, showing a rim of fire all around the edge. At numerous points at the edge of the crust jets of fire are seen spouting upwards, throwing up a spray of glowing lava drops and emitting a dull simmering sound. The heat for the time being is not intense. Now and then a fountain breaks out in the middle of the lake and boils freely for a few minutes.
Page 161 - Some of the volcanoes of Iceland have been known to disgorge at a single outbreak masses of lava fully equal to them. But in that island such extravasations are infrequent, and a century has elapsed since any of such magnitude have been emitted, though several of minor extent have been outpoured.
Page 196 - And, for that entent, the same nyght they pight them in a fielde, in a close even at the townes ende ; the towne, and the abbey, at theyr backs ; afore them, and upon every hand of them, fowle lanes, and depe dikes, and many hedges, with hylls, and valleys, a ryght evill place to approche, as cowlde well have bene devysed.
Page 250 - I must admit, that in the case of coarse-grained, highly quartzose granites there is so very little evidence of igneous fusion, and such overwhelming proof ot the action of water, that it is impossible to draw a line between them and those veins where, in all probability, mica, felspar, and quartz have been deposited from solution in water, without there being any definite genuine igneous fusion like that in the case of furnace slags or erupted lavas.
Page 248 - Fah.), when the alcohol occupies just half the volume of the tube ; if the tube is more than half filled with alcohol, it bursts when heated. A glass tube one-third filled with water becomes opaque when heated, and bursts after a few seconds. If this chemical action of the water on the glass be diminished by the addition of a little carbonate of soda, the transparency of the glass will be much...
Page 163 - Now this eruption lasted two nights and two days without intermission, though, it is true, not always with the same force; the third day the eruption ceased, and I went up with many people to the top of the new hill, and saw down into its mouth, which was a round cavity about a quarter of a mile in circumference, in the middle of which, the stones which had fallen were boiling up, just as a caldron of water boils on the fire.
Page 256 - The four lines of argument which I have now indicated lead all to substantially the same estimate of the dimensions of molecular structure. Jointly they established, with what we cannot but regard as a very high degree of probability, the conclusion that, in any ordinary liquid, transparent solid, or seemingly opaque solid, the mean distance between the centres of contiguous molecules is less than the...
Page 196 - Compiled and put in this forme suinge, by a servaunt of the Kyngs, that presently saw in effect a great parte 'of his exploytes, and the resydewe knewe by true relation of them that were present at every tyme.