This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...beginning to assume their present form. We need not say that those who seek for detailed lithological distinctions and elaborate descriptions of mineral structure will not find any such in our pages: on such points it is alone necessary to refer to the lucid writings of M. Gustaf Rose'. General Section across ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...beginning to assume their present form. We need not say that those who seek for detailed lithological distinctions and elaborate descriptions of mineral structure will not find any such in our pages: on such points it is alone necessary to refer to the lucid writings of M. Gustaf Rose'. General Section across the Ural by the route from Perm to Ekaterinburg, with an account of the eruptive Rocks and lllineral Springs of Nijny Serginsk (Pl. II. fig. l.).--It has been previously shown that the Permian strata, occupying the regions watered by the Kama and its tributary the Sylva, sweep over large low tracts at the western slopes of the Ural Mountains, from whence many of their component parts have been derived (p. 168). Extending to Kongur, these red and cupriferous deposits becoming highly gypsiferous, are lost under an extensive cover of black earth between Kongur and the post-house of Morgunnof. Thence to the station Zlataustsk the base of the country is calcareous, exhibiting here and there, particularly in the environs of Saksomsk', cavernous, white and yellow, dolomitic limestone forming low hills, which, from the few remains detected in it, and more particularly by subsequent examination of its southern prolongation near Krasno Ufimsk, we considered to be carboniferousa. ' Reise nach dem Ural, dem Altai und dem Kaspischen Meere von A. von Humboldt, G. Ehrenberg und G. Rose. Berlin, 1837 and 1842. " An iron-work of M. Alex. Demidoff. 9 The heat was intense as we passed this tract, our thermometer in the shade of the carriage, even when exposed to the rapid current of air, being from 94 to 99 Fahrelllwih Late in the evening it fell to 88, and at sunrise was 69.--June l2, 1841. 354 WEST FLANK OF CHAIN. To the east of Zlataustsk...
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