Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... thrown up from beneath ; that many of them are interspersed with the relics of other rocks , and of plants , shells , the bones of fish , and the skeletons of land quadrupeds , a large share of which are of species and genera that no ...
... thrown up from beneath ; that many of them are interspersed with the relics of other rocks , and of plants , shells , the bones of fish , and the skeletons of land quadrupeds , a large share of which are of species and genera that no ...
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... thrown into their present conditions . To accom- plish anything beyond this , to demonstrate that the date of the creation was infinite ages ago , is wholly without its sphere . It might almost as well be assigned the task of ...
... thrown into their present conditions . To accom- plish anything beyond this , to demonstrate that the date of the creation was infinite ages ago , is wholly without its sphere . It might almost as well be assigned the task of ...
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... thrown off not only the ocean from its bosom into the surrounding space , but a large share , if not the whole , of its earthy and rocky mass , and left them , if the other bodies of the system were exerting their attractive force , to ...
... thrown off not only the ocean from its bosom into the surrounding space , but a large share , if not the whole , of its earthy and rocky mass , and left them , if the other bodies of the system were exerting their attractive force , to ...
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... thrown the axis of the earth from an angle , to a perpendicular to the ecliptic . In maintaining , therefore , that the earth had revolved round the sun through an immeasurable tract of years , with its present inclination to the eclip ...
... thrown the axis of the earth from an angle , to a perpendicular to the ecliptic . In maintaining , therefore , that the earth had revolved round the sun through an immeasurable tract of years , with its present inclination to the eclip ...
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... thrown down . " Whether or not , in assigning a period of more than 30,000 years for the recession of the Falls from Queenstown to their present site , I have over or under estimated the time required for that operation , no one can ...
... thrown down . " Whether or not , in assigning a period of more than 30,000 years for the recession of the Falls from Queenstown to their present site , I have over or under estimated the time required for that operation , no one can ...
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