The Subterranean World (eBook)

George Hartwig (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
1066 Seiten
anboco (Verlag)
978-3-7364-1703-8 (ISBN)

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Nature displays her wonders not only in the starry heavens or in the boundless variety of animal and vegetable life on the surface of our earth. In the dark regions underground she likewise shows us much that is remarkable or beautiful, or carries on gigantic operations, which are sometimes beneficent and sometimes disastrous to mankind. There lie concealed the mysterious laboratories of fire, which reveal to us their existence in earthquakes and volcanic explosions. There, in successive strata, repose the remains of extinct animals and plants. There many a wonderful cavern may be seen, with its fantastic stalactites, its rushing waters, and its noble halls. There have been deposited the rich stores of mineral wealth-the metals, the coals, the salt, the sulphur, &c.-without whose aid man would never have been more than a savage. The aim of the present work has been to describe the wonders of this hidden world in their various relations vito man, now raising him to wealth, and now dooming him to destruction. The author trusts that he may have succeeded in giving a sketch of the phenomena resulting from the action of subterranean forces, which, with his account of the wonders of the sea, of the tropics, and of the frozen regions, may impart to the reader a fair idea of the history and present condition of the wonderful world in which we live. Salon, near Ludwigsburg: July 6, 1871.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

MAPS.

Of the World, showing the distribution of Volcanoes and the

Districts visited by Earthquakes

to face page

60

Of Great Britain, showing the Coal-fields and chief Mining Districts

400

Of America, showing the Coal-fields and Mineral Districts

410

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOODCUTS.

PAGE

Carboniferous Forest

engraved by G. Pearson, to face title

Tabular Geological Profile of Strata with corresponding Fossils

engraved by G. Pearson

3

Aqueous Strata disturbed by Igneous Formations

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4

Ammonites Henleyi (Middle Lias)

from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’

9

Trilobite

from Kemp’s ‘Phasis of Matter’

11

Magnified Eye of Trilobite

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11

Pterygotus acuminatus (Eurypterid)

from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’

12

Spirifer princeps (Brachiopod)

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12

Pterichthys Milleri, restored (Old Red Sandstone of Scotland)

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14

Ventriculites, Fossil Sponge (Chalk)

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16

Siphonia costata, Fossil Sponge, (Green Sand, Warminster)

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16

Encrinus liliiformis (Muschelkalk, Germany)

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17

Pentacrinus briareus

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17

Marsupites ornatus (Chalk)

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18

Turrilites tuberculatum

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19

Restored Belemnite

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19

Ichthyosaurus communis

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20

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus (British Museum—found in the Lias of Street, near Glastonbury)

from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’

21

Glyptodon clavipes

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25

Diagram illustrating action of Syphon

engraved by G. Pearson

44

Section of an Intermittent Spring

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45

Geysirs of Iceland

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46

Porous Strata, Artesian Well sunk in the London Basin

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 3-7364-1703-9 / 3736417039
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7364-1703-8 / 9783736417038