Faith and Thought, Том 13 |
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But every year the high ground is wasted , the mouth is silted up , and the soil probably hardens and becomes less easy to remove . The quantity annually carried down will thus diminish for three different reasons .
But every year the high ground is wasted , the mouth is silted up , and the soil probably hardens and becomes less easy to remove . The quantity annually carried down will thus diminish for three different reasons .
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Rather less than 94,000 years . The same principle applies to the mud of the Nile , and a vast number of cases of a similar kind . The doctrine of averages , when so applied , rests on a mere assumption , not only unproved , but highly ...
Rather less than 94,000 years . The same principle applies to the mud of the Nile , and a vast number of cases of a similar kind . The doctrine of averages , when so applied , rests on a mere assumption , not only unproved , but highly ...
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He calculates , from Fourier's theory of the rate of conduction , and the specific heat of rocks at Edinburgh and Greenock , that the consolidation of the earth's crust cannot have taken place less than 20 nor more than 400 millions of ...
He calculates , from Fourier's theory of the rate of conduction , and the specific heat of rocks at Edinburgh and Greenock , that the consolidation of the earth's crust cannot have taken place less than 20 nor more than 400 millions of ...
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The view , which Sir William rejects as more hypothetical , that the heat is generated by chemical change , seems to me less hypothetical and more natural than his own ; and needs only to be carried a step further and applied to the ...
The view , which Sir William rejects as more hypothetical , that the heat is generated by chemical change , seems to me less hypothetical and more natural than his own ; and needs only to be carried a step further and applied to the ...
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So far the second is less suited than the first to account for a glacial period . But with regard to total winter temperature , the operation of the two causes is precisely of the same kind , and the relative effect in the ratio of ...
So far the second is less suited than the first to account for a glacial period . But with regard to total winter temperature , the operation of the two causes is precisely of the same kind , and the relative effect in the ratio of ...
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