Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived , the agents by which they were ...
... series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the materials of the strata were derived , the agents by which they were ...
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... series of ages must have passed before their construction could have been completed ; not to say that it could never ... age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of any one of the ...
... series of ages must have passed before their construction could have been completed ; not to say that it could never ... age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of any one of the ...
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... series of ages , it must be by what they themselves are , in composition , bulk , and number - not by any theory of an antecedent state of the earth , or the processes by which they were formed . If they do not prove the great age of ...
... series of ages , it must be by what they themselves are , in composition , bulk , and number - not by any theory of an antecedent state of the earth , or the processes by which they were formed . If they do not prove the great age of ...
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... age of the world is to be established , if established at all ? If there is nothing in the strata themselves , that ... series of ages were requisite to the construction of the strata of the earth ? CHAPTER II . The Geological Theory ...
... age of the world is to be established , if established at all ? If there is nothing in the strata themselves , that ... series of ages were requisite to the construction of the strata of the earth ? CHAPTER II . The Geological Theory ...
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... series of organic remains imbedded in the strata , do undoubtedly appear to require periods of very considerable duration , and to indicate that very many ages had elapsed before the diapason closing full in man , ' a new exertion of ...
... series of organic remains imbedded in the strata , do undoubtedly appear to require periods of very considerable duration , and to indicate that very many ages had elapsed before the diapason closing full in man , ' a new exertion of ...
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