"Arenaceous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the heights of the Oural mountains, or the hardness of their rocks, make an essential distinction between them and the argillaceous or arenaceous strata of the plains; solidity and hardness, as well as changes in their height and natural position, has been superinduced in operations posterior to the collection of those masses,—operations which may be formed in various degrees, even in the different parts of the same mass. If this is ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton |
