Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a… - James Dwight Dana
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a…
- James Dwight Dana
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. - James Dwight Dana
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher… - James Dwight Dana
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher…
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har… - James Dwight Dana
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har…
Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. - James Dwight Dana
Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani… - James Dwight Dana
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani…
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a… - James Dwight Dana
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a…
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig… - James Dwight Dana
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig…
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-formin… - James Dwight Dana
Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-formin…
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