It consists also in the generation of gases, and their expansion by heat, and the injection of liquid matter into rents formed in superincumbent rocks.
In the section thus exhibited, a dike of lava is seen, first cutting through an older mass of lava, and then penetrating the superincumbent tertiary strata.
It is conceivable that in large and shallow subterranean basins the superincumbent earth may rest upon the water and be partly supported by it.
Making a final search, a letter was detached from a superincumbent mass, the superscription of which had the Tumut and Bunjil postmarks.
This remark ought perhaps to be extended to a part of the superincumbent basaltic rocks; but on this point, I was not able to obtain clear evidence.
Westward of Porto Praya beyond Red Hill, the white stratum with the superincumbentbasalt is covered up by more recent streams.
A calcareous sedimentary deposit, with recent shells, altered by the contact of superincumbent lava, its horizontality and extent.
One white ribbon- like layer of decomposed, pumiceous breccia, was curiously bent into deep unbroken curves, beneath each of the large fragments in the superincumbent stratum.
It is merely crushing him, and unless his will is killed the effect will be seen if ever the superincumbent pressure is by chance removed.
A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch.
Low down in the valleys the old red sandstone crops out, and, as you go west into Delaware County, in many places it alone remains and makes up most of the soil, all the superincumbent rock having been carried away.
Where the ravines had been filled with solid masonry, the mountain torrents have eaten a way beneath it, leaving the superincumbent mass still spanning the valley like an arch.
Some naturalists suppose that vast numbers of oil-giving creatures had been assembled in the districts in which these oil wells are now found, and the oil was pressed out of them by a superincumbent weight of rock.
Near Pudmoor Pool stands a gray block of ironstone, a solitary portion of the superincumbent bed that has been washed away.
These masses, there can be no doubt, are remains of superincumbent beds of hard rock that have been removed by denudation, leaving but a few fragments behind.
These oozing springs in course of vast ages have undermined and washed away the superincumbent sand and have formed the crater called the Devil's Punch-Bowl.
When a sufficient depth of snow collects upon the earth's surface, the lower portions are squeezed out by the pressure of the superincumbent mass.
Sometimes in alluvial ground the trend of the reef will be revealed by a track of quartz fragments, more or less thickly distributed on the surface and through the superincumbent soil.
The pressure of the whole superincumbent mass on the pelvic or lower organs induces sufferings proportioned in acuteness to the extreme delicacy and sensitiveness of the parts thus crushed.
In this country, our democratic institutions have removed the superincumbent pressure which in the Old World confines the servants to a regular orbit.
Between the jewelled floors and the superincumbent rocks are stalagmites of pure white calcareous alabaster.
But a slight pressure upwards reminds him of the superincumbent mountain, and so he feels like a prisoner with billions of tons above him and the rocky base below.
A simple method is pursued for clarifying it: a handful of Indian meal is sprinkled on the surface of a vessel of water, precipitating the mud to the bottom, and the superincumbent water is left in a tolerable state of purity.
