physical geology
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The rest of this chapter is devoted to a brief overview of a few of the important aspects of physical geology, starting with minerals and rocks.
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We have said that Darwin's hypothesis is the natural complement to Lyell's uniformitarian theory in physical geology.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
In 1544 he published the De ortu et causis subterraneorum, in which he laid the first foundations of a physical geology, and criticized the theories of the ancients.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In the field he had compared Studer's meagre sections, and consulted the available authorities on physical geology, though he had never entered upon the more popular sister-science of palaeontology.
From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
There seems, then, no escape from the admission that neither physical geology, nor palæontology, possesses any method by which the absolute synchronism of two strata can be demonstrated.
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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