 | | Book (edition) | | cavern, the depths of every mine, the heart of every rock into which modern enterprise has pierced. The...min- to ; ; and to the quarries of Paros, Pentelicus, Chios, as the emerald, the sard, the carbuncle...black paint, very generally used by women in the East, even at this day, to improve the beauty of the...entirely lost its savor, while that part next the rock as he found, » 2 its saltness.^ Plin. 13, 2-36...with fair colors, phires ; and I will the East continues perfection ; but it still is to |  | | Book | | this book is a systematic look at the mineral and rock materials that have been used from prehistoric times...displays, and non-display collections, particularly in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia...extensive mineral and rock species index to see all references to a specific rock or mineral. This book...(practicing and in training) who deal regularly with rock and mineral artifacts. Geoarchaeologists, diverse...identifying the lithology of materials excavated in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, China |  | | Book | | to take when handling, identifying or collecting rock and mineral specimens; however, we cannot accept...geological site before entering the site or removing rock and mineral specimens, and note that these may vary...by Anthony Duke. Anthony Duke also supplied the crystal structure diagrams appearing throughout the Directory...photographs were provided by the following: 2 (Granite rock exposed at Tarn (Midi-Pyrenees), France), Nature...Faults 18 Volcanoes 20 Igneous Features 22 The Rock Cycle 24 Flow Igneous Rocks Form 26 Flow Sedimentary |  | | Book | | twinkl ing light is emitted by a little prism of rock crystal. The world of minerals is magnificent and unique...layers and lenses in limestones, dolo mites and rock salt. In nature, these minerals are confined to...is accompanied by a substantial expansion of the rock, which often causes its crumpling and fracturing...Stronger evapo ration triggers precipitation of rock salt with calcium and magnesium sulphates; finally*...chlorides and sul phates are laid down, accompanied by rock salt. This means that each dissolved salt can crystallize |  | | Book (volume) | | Citizen ’’ Series; &c. Mewsurn Warxer, M.A. Greece: History, Ancient, Fellow, Senior Tutor and Librarian...Joun Epwrin Sanpys, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D. J. Fi. Greece: Geography ane King’s College, Cambridge. Correspondent...Prince Danilo of Montenegro and of the Saviour of Greece, and Officer of the Order of St Alexander of Bulgaria...of Queen's College, Oxford. Lecturer in Classics, East London 4 Hamilton, Sir William, College (UniversityofLondon)...(UniversityofLondon). Joint-editor of Grote’s History of Greece. Bart. (in part); Harem. 2 ; Glauconite; Gneiss; |  | | Book (edition) | | Sorting diamond crystals in South Africa Metamorphic rock, showing structure of gneiss, North Carolina Obsidian...does, from the physical and chemical break-down of rock. THE MINERAL KINGDOM These subjects and many...in the Altai Mountains of Asia. Vesuvianite from Mount Vesuvius, labradorite from Labrador, thulite from...because of their occurrence or their mineral or rock associations. Thus, emplectite is from the Greek...volatile and quick-moving nature ("quicksilver"). From Greece have come the names castorite and pollucite, after |  | | Book (volume) | | Tremolite, 3d 144 5th Asbestus, 147 1st Kind, Rock -Cork , 148 2d 3d Flexible Asbestus, Common Asbestus...and thick lamellar concretions ; and frequently crystal lized . The primitive figure is an oblique four-sided...in these repositories it is associated with rock -crystal, calcareous-spar, epidote, amianthus, but prin...Arran and Rume ; in a porphyritic rock in the Siebengebirge ; also in a rock composed of white felspar, and...following are the principal varieties : 19. Twin -crystal, which we may suppose to have been formed by two |  | | Book | | intersected them?— The upper part of St Michael's Mount, Tregoning, Godolphin, Breage, and Cam Bre hills... between Bodmin and Launceston, the killas dips east and west. This superincumbent matter has been floated...dimin ished appear horizontal. At St. Michael's Mount, ramifications of B 3 vi granite shoot into the...contact; or the vein must have been fluid and the rock in that state expressed by the latin word lentus...perpendicularly between the killas ranges ;—it appears east of Seal-Hole mine, '—is lost in the sea, and rises |  | | Book (volume) | | inclined ; in a direction parallel with the beds of rock in which they occur. 5. At the places where dykes...a direction whilst the dykes, or veins of nearly east and west gular strata. And it is ; other substances...Emerald. {Topaz* . . . Precious garnet. C Crystal. I. Quartz. EARTH Y.< ] Flint. . ) Agate....slate. Porphyry. Sienite. JO. Topaz rock. 11. Quartz rock. 12. Primitive flinty slate. 13. Primitive...6. Shell limestone. 7. Third sandstone., 8. Rock 9. Chalk. 10. salt. Floetz trap. 11. Coal |  | | Book | | withstanding our valuable mines of lead, iron, rock-salt, was paid to and tin, copper, coal, so...629 _ _ 624- ^ . . V. SALINE MINERALS. Rock Salt, &c. 635-— 641. - - ADDENDA. Names tion...Just below the slate-quarry, I saw something on a rock near the right side of the path, which shone some... adhering to a mass of white stone in the slate-rock. The more the r(fck, perfect ones I got from...as they will also cut glass, as A magnificent rock, near Buttei niere Lake B in CuraberJand. 2 |  | Harris, Norman, Fenton, Carroll Lane, Cooper, Chalmer L., Collins, Henry Hill, Haslau-Perry, Olivia V. - Eds. (1961) Larousse Encyclopedia of The Earth (1st ed.) Prometheus Press, New York. | Book (edition) | | recently, a coarse in so doing, unfavourable rock, the tools natural glass obsidian, his Age man...get heat and energy from coal (a black rock) and petroleum (rock oil), as well as from gas, running water...beautiful view. The steep slope seems as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, yet plain geologic clues would warn...000 years ago. The San Franciscan sees layers of rock that formed in a sea, as well as cliffs that plainly...Switzerland, Mount Palomar in California (which has the world's largest reflector telescope). Mount Hamilton |  | | Book (volume) | | INITIALS AND HEADINGS OF ARTICLES F. W. R.* J Rock-Crystal; Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S. ...Prince Danilo of Montenegro and of the Saviour of Greece, and Officer of the Order of St Alexander of Bulgaria...Author of Cyclopaedia of Architecture in Italy, Greece and the Levant; &c. [ W. R. M. W. R. S. Richardson...grossly exaggerate the influence of the writers of Greece and Rome, for they produced no obvious rationalistic...(1867), organized at Fort Wayne, Ind.; that of the East (1875), organized at Philadelphia; and the Central |  | | Book (edition) | | Coalfield, England. Dev Devonshire, England. E. Ind East Indies. Eng England. Forest of Dean Forest of...three crystallographic axes used as reference in crystal description. It is oriented horizontally, front...of the three reference axes used in describing a rock fabric possessing monoclinic symmetry, such as progressive...The mechanical wearing away of rock surfaces by friction and impact of rock particles transported by wind...drill-stem equipment by frictional contact with the rock material penetrated or by contact with the cuttings |
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