Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... heat ; that they were borne down from those mountains and continents by rains , currents , and rivers to the ocean , and distri- buted over its bed in successive layers ; and that they were at length elevated from the bottom of the ...
... heat ; that they were borne down from those mountains and continents by rains , currents , and rivers to the ocean , and distri- buted over its bed in successive layers ; and that they were at length elevated from the bottom of the ...
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... heat , than they have to assume that it had thou- in the stater thepper sands and millions of times its present bulk of water , lanan air , quartz , lime , or any other ingredient that enters into its composition . It is against the ...
... heat , than they have to assume that it had thou- in the stater thepper sands and millions of times its present bulk of water , lanan air , quartz , lime , or any other ingredient that enters into its composition . It is against the ...
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... heat and the formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ...
... heat and the formation of gaseous bodies . It is as unphilosophical and absurd to suppose the matter of the globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ...
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... heat . There would have been no air , except of the most attenuated kind , and no water at all probably at that elevation . On the supposition that vapors could have ascended to such a height , and fallen in the form of snow , they ...
... heat . There would have been no air , except of the most attenuated kind , and no water at all probably at that elevation . On the supposition that vapors could have ascended to such a height , and fallen in the form of snow , they ...
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... heat , air , and water , acting only on the scale , and with the intensity , with which they are now disintegrating rocks , and bearing their detritus to the sea - is to beg at the outset , the very point which they affect to prove ...
... heat , air , and water , acting only on the scale , and with the intensity , with which they are now disintegrating rocks , and bearing their detritus to the sea - is to beg at the outset , the very point which they affect to prove ...
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