Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 13Victoria Institute., 1880 |
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... deposited many myriads of years ago . Human deposits are thought to occur in quaternary strata or drift , directly after the close of a great ice period . This period , again , has three different estimates of its remoteness by ...
... deposited many myriads of years ago . Human deposits are thought to occur in quaternary strata or drift , directly after the close of a great ice period . This period , again , has three different estimates of its remoteness by ...
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... present depth of the annual deposit is no proper test by which to give the average for many thousand years . 7. Let us take one case often referred to , -the Delta of the Mississippi . Sir C. Lyell , from the present amount 10.
... present depth of the annual deposit is no proper test by which to give the average for many thousand years . 7. Let us take one case often referred to , -the Delta of the Mississippi . Sir C. Lyell , from the present amount 10.
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... deposited in snow or ice , the heat needed to melt the whole would be that of four days only nearest to the summer solstice , or one- thirtieth of the whole summer heat in our latitude . 38. The reasoning in " Climate and Time , " pp ...
... deposited in snow or ice , the heat needed to melt the whole would be that of four days only nearest to the summer solstice , or one- thirtieth of the whole summer heat in our latitude . 38. The reasoning in " Climate and Time , " pp ...
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... deposits of the Mississippi the ages assigned by Lyell may have been reduced to not more than 94,000 years ; but though Lyell's first calculation may not be maintained , still a period of 94,000 years would carry the antiquity of man ...
... deposits of the Mississippi the ages assigned by Lyell may have been reduced to not more than 94,000 years ; but though Lyell's first calculation may not be maintained , still a period of 94,000 years would carry the antiquity of man ...
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... deposit was to be laid down every year . A great accumulation of worthless conjecture has been obtained by calculating the geological deposits that we have , and saying they must have taken 200,000 or 250,000 years to produce . All that ...
... deposit was to be laid down every year . A great accumulation of worthless conjecture has been obtained by calculating the geological deposits that we have , and saying they must have taken 200,000 or 250,000 years to produce . All that ...
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