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  1.  The Student's Elements of Geology / Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
    to their Origin and Age. Aqueous Rocks. Their Stratification and imbedded Fossils. Volcanic Rocks, with and without Cones and Craters. Plutonic Rocks, and their Relation to the Volcanic. Metamorphic Rocks ...  details...
  2.  Volcanic Islands / Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
    of lava.--Inland hills of more ancient volcanic rock.--Decomposed olivine in large masses ... .--Passage from wacke into trap; singular volcanic rock with the vesicles half-filled with mesotype. MAURITIUS  details...
  3.  Geological Observations on South America / Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
    .--Tertiary formations of the Western Coast.- -Chonos and Chiloe groups, volcanic rocks of ... and old volcanic rocks of.--S. Ventana.--Claystone porphyry formation of Patagonia; singular metamorphic  details...
  4.  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 5, March, 1858 / Various
    for the most part of a subterranean labyrinth of passages, cut through the soft volcanic rock of the Campagna ... years. Nine tenths of the catacombs now known are cut through one of the volcanic rocks which abound  details...
  5.  Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes / Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
    , but whether it will have the right effect on volcanic rock is hard to say. I should like to see a rock sample ... of obsidian." "Bless my watch chain!" cried Mr. Damon. "What's that?" "Obsidian is a volcanic rock--a sort  details...
  6.  Chateau of Prince Polignac / Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
    of a faubourg, or suburb. These rocks appear to be, and I believe are, the harder particles of volcanic matter ... , and Le Velay. Some three miles farther up there is another volcanic rock, larger, indeed, but equally  details...
  7.  The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain / Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
    out from a species of dark volcanic rock, by the Bedouins of the mountains. There were half a dozen small coasting ... or a tree relieved their frightful barrenness. An upland tract, covered with white volcanic rock, lay  details...
  8.  Canyons of the Colorado / Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
    through a number of volcanic rocks by black, yawning canyons. Between these canyons the river has a low but rather ... Plateau, and the volcanic peaks of the Henry Mountains on the south. It is a vast forest of rock forms  details...
  9.  The Autobiography of Charles Darwin / Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
    on a trapdyke, with amygdaloidal margins and the strata indurated on each side, with volcanic rocks all around ... , and made the volcanic rocks resound under my geological hammer. All this shows how ambitious I was  details...
  10.  The Mountains / White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946
    . The surface of the ground was composed of angular volcanic rocks about the size of your two fists ... boulder ledges laid over a great sheet of volcanic rock. The man at the hog-back put his little gray  details...

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