The earth in igneous fusion, had no more distinction of parts than a germ. Afterwards, the continents, while still beneath the waters, began to take shape. Then, as the seas deepened, the first dry land appeared, low, barren, and lifeless. Under slow... Manual of geology - Pągina 727per James Dwight Dana - 1863 - 798 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1856 - 974 pągines
...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... | |
| James Dwight Dana - 1856 - 150 pągines
...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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 964 pągines
...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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1856 - 962 pągines
...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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1857 - 586 pągines
...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... | |
| James Dwight Dana - 1863 - 836 pągines
...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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1857 - 572 pągines
...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... | |
| 540 pągines
...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... | |
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