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The Origin of the Scenery of the British Islands 1 - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoA TRUE mountain chain is the result of a local plication of the earth's crust, and its external form, in spite of sometimes enormous denudation, bears a close relation to the contours produced ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoGeological Society, June 21.—Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., in the chair.—R. J. Watson, W. T. Scarth, Gen. A. C. Bentinck, and John Brooke were elected Fellows of the Society.—“On some supposed Vegetable ...
Landslips - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIn certain districts in the immediate neighbourhood of Northwich the ground is completely honeycombed with rock-salt mines that had been worked out and abandoned. Into many of these fresh water ...
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoTHERE was a time, now almost beyond the memory even of the oldest inhabitant, when the stillness of our learned halls was unbroken by the wrangle of contending geologists, when the science of ...
Every Boy's Book of Geology: An Introductory Guide to the Study of the Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils...
Nature· 1 day agoTHIS is a good introduction to geology, lucidly written and thoroughly up-to-date. The illustrations are simple, and are line-sketches only, but they convey their meaning. The authors rightly ...
Chemical Changes in Rocks Under Mechanical Stresses1 - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAFTER pointing out that his object was to inquire how far the experimental researches of chemists and physicists are capable of affording a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena observed ...
Recession of Niagara Falls in 133 Years - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoTHE fallacy of Lyell's guess at the rate of recession was always plain if we referred to the first accurate account, that of the Swedish traveller Kalm, in Gent. Mag., January, 1751; since which ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoLONDON Geological Society, June 24.—Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., President, in the chair.—John MacDonald Cameron, Matthew Heckels, and Robert H. Williams, were elected Fellows of the Society.
Stalk, slice, bludgeon: how ‘femgore’ is reinventing horror fiction
The Guardian· 1 day agoWomen are writing novels about people (usually women, usually young) who stalk, slash, bludgeon, infect, slice, dismember and cannibalise. Recent additions to the literary subgenre some have ...
On the Gradual Rising of the Land in Sweden - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoALTHOUGH we find in a work by Urban Hjärne, printed in 1702, some remarks on the level of the sea in the Baltic, and the old shore-lines of the island of Gothland, the honour of having for the ...
