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. 1854 Excerpt: ...it to sink down upon the fluid nucleus so as to form beds for the waters. This would in part drain the continents. But it would also-by lateral pressure elevate them, and perhaps fold together the strata, as has been done the whole length of the United States. Indeed, he supposes that the Appalachian chain lies along ...
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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. 1854 Excerpt: ...it to sink down upon the fluid nucleus so as to form beds for the waters. This would in part drain the continents. But it would also-by lateral pressure elevate them, and perhaps fold together the strata, as has been done the whole length of the United States. Indeed, he supposes that the Appalachian chain lies along the Atlantic coast, and the Rocky Mountains and Cordillera along the Pacific coast, because of the greater contraction of the crust of the globe beneath those oceans. These views seem to present us with a cause--whether adequate or not to explain the phenomena, let our readers judge--for the vertical movements of this continent, or rather for the disturbance of the melted nucleus of the globe. South America has been celebrated, ever since its discovery, for the great amount of the precious metals found there. The more common metals, also, such as copper, abound. In Brazil, gold and its associated metals predominate, almost to the exclusion of all others. It is chiefly in the mountainous district of Minas, where metamorphic rocks of no very ancient date occur, that gold is found. Platinum is found with the gold; and also iron and manganese, disseminated in stratified rocks. The whole series of rocks, gneiss, chlorite slate, and altered sandstones, have been penetrated throughout by metallic particles. The diamond also is found there, in a white quartzose matrix, probably the Itacolumite. When these diamond mines were first discovered they sent forth one thousand ounces annually, but at present only one hundred and eighty-three ounces. Peru, including Bolivia, or Upper Peru, has been considered, until the recent discoveries in California, Australia and Russia, as the most remarkable region on the globe for the precious metals. Here occurs the cel...
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