...Afterwards, the continents, while still beneath the waters, began to take shape. Then, as the Reai deepened, the first dry land appeared, low, barren,...Finally in the last stage of the development, the Alps and Pyrenees and other heights received their majestic dimensions and the continents were finished...

...multiplicity of parts through successive individualizations proceeding from the more fundamental onward. The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction...Finally in the last stage of the development, the Alps and Pyrenees and other heights received their majestic dimensions and the continents were finished...

...especially with regard to the inorganic history of the globe, by Professor Guyot. (See his Earth and Man.) The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction...finally in the last stage of the development, the Alps and Pyrenees and other heights received their majestic dimensions and the continents were finished...

...especially with regard to the inorganic history of the globe, by Professor Guyot. (Sec his Earth and Man.) The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction...the concurrent action of the enveloping waters, the drv land expanded, strata formed, and as these processes went on, mountains by degrees rose, each in...

...especially with regard to the inorganic history of the globe, by Professor Guyot. (See his Earth and Man.) The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction...barren, and lifeless. Under slow intestine movements ami the concurrent action of the enveloping waters, the dry land expanded, strata formed, and as these...

...the earth's physical progress, as has been well shown by Guyot. The law is simply this : — Unity evolving multiplicity of parts through successive...waters, the dry land expanded, strata formed, and, as tnese processes went on, mountains by degrees rose, each in its appointed place. Finally, in the last...

...especially with regard to the inorganic history of the globe, by Professor Guyot. (See his Earth and Man.) The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction...rose, each in its appointed place. Finally in the hist stage of the development, the Alps and Pyrenees and other heights received their majestic dimensions...

...earth had cooled from a molten state was a basic assumption. Dana wrote (Manual, 1863, page 739) : The earth in igneous fusion had no more distinction...mountains by degrees rose, each in its appointed place. The Contraction theory of mountain building, which Dana attributed to Newton, but which is identified...