The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and HistoricallyFraser & Company, 1838 - 192 páginas |
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... island , the coal measures and new red sandstone in the middle , while the lias , oolite , chalk , and newer formations , form the eastern and southern boun- daries . * It is also sufficiently ascertained that the aggregate thickness ...
... island , the coal measures and new red sandstone in the middle , while the lias , oolite , chalk , and newer formations , form the eastern and southern boun- daries . * It is also sufficiently ascertained that the aggregate thickness ...
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... islands formed in their channels , during a period far short of a man's life . * Similar accumulations are in the process of for- mation at the mouths of all the great rivers of the world . The Amazon carries the disintegrated rocks and ...
... islands formed in their channels , during a period far short of a man's life . * Similar accumulations are in the process of for- mation at the mouths of all the great rivers of the world . The Amazon carries the disintegrated rocks and ...
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... islands were numbered from the confluence of the Missouri to the sea ; but every season makes such revolutions , not only in the number , but in the magnitude and situation of these islands , that this enumeration is now almost obsolete ...
... islands were numbered from the confluence of the Missouri to the sea ; but every season makes such revolutions , not only in the number , but in the magnitude and situation of these islands , that this enumeration is now almost obsolete ...
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... islands , and in some parts streams of lava are occasionally flowing into the sea , which become covered again in the intervals of eruptions with other beds of corals . The various rocks , therefore , stratified and unstratified , now ...
... islands , and in some parts streams of lava are occasionally flowing into the sea , which become covered again in the intervals of eruptions with other beds of corals . The various rocks , therefore , stratified and unstratified , now ...
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... island were covered by the ocean , the same arguments apply . For either the deposition of the coal strata was going on contem- poraneously with the formation of the oolitic beds , or some equivalent system of operations must have been ...
... island were covered by the ocean , the same arguments apply . For either the deposition of the coal strata was going on contem- poraneously with the formation of the oolitic beds , or some equivalent system of operations must have been ...
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accumulated ages ancient antiquity appear beds bones book of Genesis Bridgewater Treatise Burdiehouse carboniferous catastrophe causes circumstances coal measures commencement continents Cuvier deluge deposited diluvial matter diluvium Dr Hooke dry land earth earth's strata earth's surface Edinburgh elevated epochs eruptions evidently extinct facts feet ferous formation formed former fossil fossil remains genera geologists globe gneiss gradually greywacke heat heaven Hebrew hitherto igneous rocks indefinite indicate islands limestone Lyell marine mass mastodon miles mind molluscous Mosaic narrative Mosaical record Moses narrative of Moses nature ocean oolite operations opinion origin period phenomena philosophers plants and animals portions pre-adamite present system primary produced proofs regions revelation revolution rivers sacred Scripture second verse sedimentary Septuagint shale shells shew shewn six thousand soil speculations successive supposed system of things taking place terrestrial terrestrial animals thickness tion traces trap rocks tree vegetable volcanic waters Wealden whole zoophytes