Or shall they rise, Upheaved in broken cliffs and airy peaks, Haunts of the eagle and the snake, and thou Gush midway from the bare and barren steep?
But is it reasonable to expect, after the waste caused by denudation, that calcareous masses, gradually upheaved in an open sea, should retain such vast thicknesses?
Plains have been upheaved into hills by the confined air seeking vent; as at Troezene in the Peloponnesus.
He imagined that the continents were first gradually destroyed by aqueous degradation; and when their ruins had furnished materials for new continents, they were upheaved by violent convulsions.
Lastly, some chains are comparatively modern; such as the Alps, which were partly upheaved after the middle tertiary period.
That the existing lands were not all upheaved at once into their present position is proved by the most striking evidence.
Whether its waves may once have had access to the great valley before the ancient portion of Etna was upheaved to its present elevation, is a question which will naturally present itself to every geologist.
It appears that some of the parallel ridges which compose the Cordilleras, instead of being contemporaneous, were successively and slowly upheaved at widely different epochs.
Them and their war-rage in no wise Æneas might abide, But on he rushes, showing huge with upheaved threatening shaft.
If then the same area of land be again upheaved to its former height, the fall, and consequently the velocity, of every river would begin to augment.
A] In this illustration it is supposed that the expansive force acted simultaneously and with equal intensity at every point within the upheaved area, and not with greater energy along the central axis or region of principal elevation.
No district is better fitted to illustrate the manner in which a great series of strata may have been upheaved and gradually denuded than the country intervening between the North and South Downs.
When a thickness of many hundred feet of loess had been thrown down slowly by this operation, the whole region was once more upheaved gradually.
The forms of that great mountain, upheaved from the mighty mass of waters, which we call the Earth, shows many arrangements which, while they are sufficiently symmetrical, are still not reducible to what would seem a perfect system.
These islets are extinct craters of by-gone volcanoes; the seaman knows them only by the summits which the slow but steadfast toil of the coral insect has upheavedfrom the depths.
In 1673, a mountain is said to stave been upheaved at Gamokonora on the northern peninsula.
Attempts to determine the centre of gravity of the volume of the lands upheaved above the level p 21 of the sea.
Plutonic rocks at the period of their eruption, as well as on the formation of gneiss from schist, through the action of granite and of the substances upheaved with it, to be found in the 'Abhandl.
Here the coast was upheaved into terraces of grey limestone, topped by a layer of sand riddled with rabbit holes.
Standing apart in its own green lands, it looked older than the young red earth beneath it, a mass upheaved from the grey foundations of the hills.
There was a vast movement in the sky, as if the darkness were being visibly upheavedand rolled away westwards by the wind.
Francesco Marmocchi says, in his geography of the island: "Mineral springs are the invariable characteristic of countries which have been upheavedby the interior forces.
Corsica owes her existence to successive conglobations of upheaved masses; during an extended period she has had three great volcanic processes, to which the bizarre and abrupt contours of her landscape are to be ascribed.
They consist partly of compact coral limestone, partly of a coral and shell conglomerate upheaved 30 or 40 feet above the present level of the sea.
They are distinctly characterised as a portion of the chain of oceanic elevation which began in former geological periods and still continues, by the upheaved coral banks, and by the continuous formation of coral reefs.
The shores of the bay rose precipitously from a beach of sand to an average height of 30 feet, and showed plainly the island formation of grey clay, sandstone, and overlying beds of upheaved coral.
Or by water draining off a vast flat as it was upheaved out of the sea?
We travelled directly towards them, and upon approaching, I found the rocks upheaved in a most singular manner, and a few gum-trees were visible at the foot of the ridge.
Then silence, hollow, breathless, stony silence enveloped the great abyss and its upheaved lava walls.
Part way it led through spiked, crested, upheaved lava that would have been almost impassable even without its silver coating of choya cactus.
Those flying squadrons, beneath whose horses' hoofs the ground is trembling as if upheaved by an earthquake, are headed by Eugene--the indomitable Eugene.
All the self-control which she could gather to meet this sinister disclosure, could not smother the groan which was upheaved from Olympia's sinking heart.
I"--but he paused, and his face grew of a deadly pallor, while a convulsive sigh was upheaved from his bosom.
But if so, they were washed away, again and again, ages before the land assumed anything of its present shape; ages before the beds were twisted and upheaved as they are now.
But you must clearly understand, that however much these coralline limestones have been upheaved since they were formed, yet the sea- bottom, while they were being formed, was sinking and not rising.
And it is to be remembered, as a proof of their inconceivable antiquity, that they have been upheaved and shifted long before the Cambrian rocks were laid down "unconformably" on their worn and broken edges.
The cliffs all around were tumbled about in the most chaotic confusion, as if they had been upheaved by some tremendous throe of nature.
Philip's last shot missed, and before he could reload they were lost among theupheaved masses of the cliff.
A thick wall of stunted forest shut out the barren from their view; the stream grew narrower, and on the opposite side a barren ridge, threatening them with torn and upheaved masses of rock, flung the heavy shadows of evening down upon them.
Even now we have seen that at Flagstaff Hill the lower extremity and most distant portion of one sheet of the erupted matter has been upheaved to as great a height as the crater down which it flowed, and probably even to a greater height.
Suddenly Upheaved the land, upheaved the awful sea; The earth was riven; toppling forests bent, To sink and disappear in that vast rent!
For miles in every direction the sea swelled and upheaved into great peaked waves, the repeller rising upon these almost high enough to look down into the awful chasms which her bombs were making.
For, it was shown in the First Chapter, that this line of coast has been upheaved with remarkable equability, and that over a vast space both north and south of S.
Southward and seaward of Buenos Ayres, the plains were upheaved from under water inhabited by true marine shells.
He clearly saw that in all cases the forces by which these striking phenomena must have been produced were persistent over wide areas, and were connected with the great movements by which the rocks had been upheaved and folded.
Concepcion--have been upheaved long after the formation of the Cordillera.
In the peninsula of Lacuy, the strata over a width of four miles have beenupheaved by three distinct, and some other indistinct, lines of elevation, ranging within a point of north and south.
On the quartz there rest beds of a conglomerate several thousand feet in thickness, which have been upheaved by the red granite, and dip at an angle of 45 degrees towards the Peuquenes line.
Who can avoid wondering at the force which has upheaved these mountains, and even more so at the countless ages which it must have required to have broken through, removed, and levelled whole masses of them?
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