JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 22 TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 22 TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER This time the descent commenced by the new gallery. Hans walked firstas was his custom. We had not gone a hundred yards when the Professor moving hislantern along the walls cried Here are primitive rocks. Now we are in the right way. Forward When in its early stages the earth was slowly cooling itscontraction gave rise in its crust to disruptions distortions fissures and chasms. The passage through which we were moving wassuch a fissure through which at one time granite poured out in amolten state. Its thousands of windings formed an inextricablelabyrinth through the primeval mass. As fast as we descended the succession of beds forming the primitivefoundation came out with increasing distinctness. Geologists considerthis primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of theearth and have ascertained it to be composed of three differentformations schist gneiss and mica schist resting upon thatunchangeable foundation the granite. Never had mineralogists found themselves in so marvellous a situationto study nature in situ. What the boring machine an insensible inert instrument was unable to bring to the surface of the innerstructure of the globe we were able to peruse with our own eyes andhandle with our own hands. Through the beds of schist coloured with delicate shades of green ran in winding course threads of copper and manganese with traces ofplatinum and gold. I thought what riches are here buried at anunapproachable depth in the earth hidden for ever from the covetouseyes of the human race These treasures have been buried at such aprofound depth by the convulsions of primeval times that they run nochance of ever being molested by the pickaxe or the spade. To the schists succeeded gneiss partially stratified remarkable forthe parallelism and regularity of its lamina then mica schists laidin large plates or flakes revealing their lamellated structure bythe sparkle of the white .
