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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Grandeur

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geology, mythology, power of nature, human ambition, sublime  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-21

Is it not quite evident that this gallery was formerly the outlet for the pent-up lava in the interior of the earth, and that these eruptive matters t...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Geothermal Conductivity

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geology, thermodynamics, natural phenomena, environmental understanding  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-11

The difference evidently depends on the conductibility of certain rocks. In the neighborhood of an extinct volcano, it has been remarked that the elev...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temperature Gradients

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geology, exploration, natural phenomena, scientific inquiry, heat  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-05

Thus at Yakoust in Siberia, it has been remarked that the heat increases a degree every thirty-six feet. The difference evidently depends on the condu...