...the buried sediments. The notion of a subterranean combustion or fermentation, as a source of hc:it, is to be rejected as irrational. A view identical...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and .subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...of heat as a result of the chemical process ( Naturgeschichte, voL i, p. 109; also Bull. Soc. Qeol. de France [1], vol. vii, p. 197). In commenting upon...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...generated, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow7. At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrium of pressure, consequent upon...

...soon after put forth by Sir John Herschel, in a letter to Sir Charles Lyell, in 1836 (Proe. Geol. Soe. London, ii. 548.) Starting from the suggestion of...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrinm of pressure, consequent upon a transfer of sediments? while the yielding surface reposes...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...eventually, with their included water, be raised to the inciting point, by which process gases would be generated, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow....

...earth's crust must rise as a conseqnence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and may eventually, with their inclnded water, be raised to the melting point, by which process gases would be generated, and earthquakes...

...strata, with an evolution of heat as a result of the chemical process ( Naturgeschichte, voL i, p. 109; also Bull Soc. Geol. de France [1], vol. vii,...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrinm of pressure, consequent upon a transfer of sediments? while the yielding surface reposes...