All 32 Uses of
geology
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth - trnsl by M - 45 chptrs
- Sometimes he might irretrievably injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geologist with the keen eye of the mineralogist.†
Chpt 1
- I freely confess that I was exceedingly fond of geology and all its kindred sciences; the blood of a mineralogist was in my veins, and in the midst of my specimens I was always happy.†
Chpt 1
- We had become engaged unknown to my uncle, who was too much taken up with geology to be able to enter into such feelings as ours.†
Chpt 3
- Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is!†
Chpt 4
- His imagination is a volcano, and to do that which other geologists have never done he would risk his life.†
Chpt 5
- If that document were divulged, a whole army of geologists would be ready to rush into the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm.†
Chpt 6
- But it is likewise the creed adopted by other distinguished geologists, that the interior of the globe is neither gas nor water, nor any of the heaviest minerals known, for in none of these cases would the earth weigh what it does.†
Chpt 6
- "You see, Axel," he added, "the condition of the terrestrial nucleus has given rise to various hypotheses among geologists; there is no proof at all for this internal heat; my opinion is that there is no such thing, it cannot be; besides we shall see for ourselves, and, like Arne Saknussemm, we shall know exactly what to hold as truth concerning this grand question."†
Chpt 6
- "Well," replied my uncle, who was frantically locking his legs together to keep himself from jumping up in the air, "that is where I mean to begin my geological studies, there on that Seffel—Fessel— what do you call it?"†
Chpt 10
- As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.†
Chpt 15
- I don't suppose the maddest geologist under such circumstances would have studied the nature of the rocks that we were passing.†
Chpt 17
- GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU Next day, Tuesday, June 30, at 6 a.m., the descent began again.†
Chpt 19
- But my geological instinct was stronger than my prudence, and uncle Liedenbrock heard my exclamation.†
Chpt 19
- The whole history of the carboniferous period was written upon these gloomy walls, and a geologist might with ease trace all its diverse phases.†
Chpt 20
- But still we marched on, and I alone was forgetting the length of the way by losing myself in the midst of geological contemplations.†
Chpt 20
- Geologists consider this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of the earth, and have ascertained it to be composed of three different formations, schist, gneiss, and mica schist, resting upon that unchangeable foundation, the granite.†
Chpt 22
- This well, or abyss, was a narrow cleft in the mass of the granite, called by geologists a 'fault,' and caused by the unequal cooling of the globe of the earth.†
Chpt 24
- I began to run wildly, hurrying through the inextricable maze, still descending, still running through the substance of the earth's thick crust, a struggling denizen of geological 'faults,' crying, shouting, yelling, soon bruised by contact with the jagged rock, falling and rising again bleeding, trying to drink the blood which covered my face, and even waiting for some rock to shatter my skull against.†
Chpt 27
- "I can't explain the inexplicable, but you will soon see and understand that geology has not yet learnt all it has to learn."†
Chpt 29
- Besides I could not tell upon what geological theory to account for the existence of such an excavation.†
Chpt 30
- [1] These animals belonged to a late geological period, the Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have no connection with the carboniferous vegetation.†
Chpt 30
- No doubt; and there is a geological explanation of the fact.
Chpt 30 *geological = a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
- THE LIEDENBROCK MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY How shall I describe the strange series of passions which in succession shook the breast of Professor Liedenbrock?†
Chpt 37
- To the geologists of the United Kingdom, who believed in the certainty of the fact—Messrs.†
Chpt 38
- My uncle Liedenbrock, along with the great body of the geologists, had maintained his ground, disputed, and argued, until M. Elie de Beaumont stood almost alone in his opinion.†
Chpt 38
- Fresh discoveries of remains in the pleiocene formation had emboldened other geologists to refer back the human species to a higher antiquity still.†
Chpt 38
- Thus, at one bound, the record of the existence of man receded far back into the history of the ages past; he was a predecessor of the mastodon; he was a contemporary of the southern elephant; he lived a hundred thousand years ago, when, according to geologists, the pleiocene formation was in progress.†
Chpt 38
- Eminent geologists have denied his existence, others no less eminent have affirmed it.†
Chpt 38
- In his hand he wielded with ease an enormous bough, a staff worthy of this shepherd of the geologic period.†
Chpt 39
- I had rather admit that it may have been some animal whose structure resembled the human, some ape or baboon of the early geological ages, some protopitheca, or some mesopitheca, some early or middle ape like that discovered by Mr. Lartet in the bone cave of Sansau.†
Chpt 39
- I could hear him murmuring geological terms.†
Chpt 42
- I could understand them, and in spite of myself I felt interested in this last geological study.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(geology) a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
or more rarely:
the rocks, minerals, and rock formations of an area