Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Том 13Victoria Institute., 1880 |
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... earth's crust were produced not by convulsions of nature , but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological ...
... earth's crust were produced not by convulsions of nature , but by the slow and almost imperceptible action of sun , rivers , snow , frost , ice , which impressed so strongly on the minds of geologists the vast duration of geological ...
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... earth , Sir W. Thomson . further remarks , " cannot have been sensibly affected by con- ducted heat , at any time more than ten thousand years after the solidification of the surface . " This may be true , if we take the phrase ...
... earth , Sir W. Thomson . further remarks , " cannot have been sensibly affected by con- ducted heat , at any time more than ten thousand years after the solidification of the surface . " This may be true , if we take the phrase ...
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... earth's interior ; that it is not , as commonly supposed , all liquid within a solid crust from thirty to one hundred miles thick , but is , on the whole , more rigid than a solid globe of glass of the same diameter , and probably than ...
... earth's interior ; that it is not , as commonly supposed , all liquid within a solid crust from thirty to one hundred miles thick , but is , on the whole , more rigid than a solid globe of glass of the same diameter , and probably than ...
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... earth's inclination and ex- centricity which go back beyond this limit must remain highly uncertain on this ground alone , and are beyond the range of assured and certain science . 100 20. Two other theories may be also dismissed in few ...
... earth's inclination and ex- centricity which go back beyond this limit must remain highly uncertain on this ground alone , and are beyond the range of assured and certain science . 100 20. Two other theories may be also dismissed in few ...
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... earth than the opinions just examined . But I believe that it rests on a fundamental mistake which it is not difficult to place in a clear light . Mr. Croll remarks on it as follows : - " The theory is beset by a twofold objection ...
... earth than the opinions just examined . But I believe that it rests on a fundamental mistake which it is not difficult to place in a clear light . Mr. Croll remarks on it as follows : - " The theory is beset by a twofold objection ...
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