Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... thrown back into the seas and oceans which now surround them . The advocates of the geological theory , however , assign our present mountains and hills a far earlier date , and assert that many of them at least have * " If we suppose ...
... thrown back into the seas and oceans which now surround them . The advocates of the geological theory , however , assign our present mountains and hills a far earlier date , and assert that many of them at least have * " If we suppose ...
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... thrown up from the sea at so late an epoch as the deluge , they reject as little better than a solecism . They are thus again in conflict with the sacred record . No hypothesis can reconcile them ; no artifice — if the theory is held to ...
... thrown up from the sea at so late an epoch as the deluge , they reject as little better than a solecism . They are thus again in conflict with the sacred record . No hypothesis can reconcile them ; no artifice — if the theory is held to ...
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... thrown into the conditions in which they now exist ; and thirdly - which holds but a very subordinate place in their reasonings - on a theory respecting the produc- tion and destruction of the vegetables and animals , the relics of ...
... thrown into the conditions in which they now exist ; and thirdly - which holds but a very subordinate place in their reasonings - on a theory respecting the produc- tion and destruction of the vegetables and animals , the relics of ...
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... thrown up from beneath the ocean since the formation of the tertiary , the last great division of the strata . * " If we admit that the primary , the transition , the secondary , and the tertiary classes of rock were formed at * " If we ...
... thrown up from beneath the ocean since the formation of the tertiary , the last great division of the strata . * " If we admit that the primary , the transition , the secondary , and the tertiary classes of rock were formed at * " If we ...
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... thrown up from the ocean since the period of the secondary formations . The Appala- chians bear on their tops or sustain on their sides the main members of the great series from the Potsdam sandstone , the lowest of the fossiliferous ...
... thrown up from the ocean since the period of the secondary formations . The Appala- chians bear on their tops or sustain on their sides the main members of the great series from the Potsdam sandstone , the lowest of the fossiliferous ...
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