Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... tertiary systems consist , or what the periods are which are required for their formation . No laws , consequently , can be deduced from the strata themselves by which it can be demonstrated , that vast periods have been employed in ...
... tertiary systems consist , or what the periods are which are required for their formation . No laws , consequently , can be deduced from the strata themselves by which it can be demonstrated , that vast periods have been employed in ...
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... tertiary epoch . " — Lyell's Principles , pp . 404 , 405 . These writers thus not only assert the existence of continents and mountains countless years anterior to the date of the creation recorded in Genesis , but they refer the ...
... tertiary epoch . " — Lyell's Principles , pp . 404 , 405 . These writers thus not only assert the existence of continents and mountains countless years anterior to the date of the creation recorded in Genesis , but they refer the ...
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... tertiary strata are of identically the species that now inhabit the seas and the earth . Thus Sir Charles Lyell says : " M. Deshayes , of Paris , well known by his conchological works , at my request , drew up in a tabular form a list ...
... tertiary strata are of identically the species that now inhabit the seas and the earth . Thus Sir Charles Lyell says : " M. Deshayes , of Paris , well known by his conchological works , at my request , drew up in a tabular form a list ...
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... tertiary , or modern , and which are characterized by having all the imbedded fossil shells identical with species now living , whereas even the newer - pliocene , or newest of the tertiary deposits above alluded to , contain always ...
... tertiary , or modern , and which are characterized by having all the imbedded fossil shells identical with species now living , whereas even the newer - pliocene , or newest of the tertiary deposits above alluded to , contain always ...
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... tertiary . " M. Murchison and De Verneuil found in 1840 that the flat country between St. Petersburgh and Archangel , for a distance of 600 miles , consists of horizontal strata , full of shells similar to those now inhabiting the ...
... tertiary . " M. Murchison and De Verneuil found in 1840 that the flat country between St. Petersburgh and Archangel , for a distance of 600 miles , consists of horizontal strata , full of shells similar to those now inhabiting the ...
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