 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 páginas
...danger of our overrating the mean rate of waste by selecting " (as Mr. Croll and Geikie had done) " the Mississippi as our example. For that river drains...is thrown down and arrested on its way to the sea. In striking a general average we have to remember that there are large deserts in which there is scarcely... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1871 - 656 páginas
...sea, we can affirm how much on an average has been removed from the general surface in one year, and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate...the fluviatile sediment is thrown down and arrested in its way to the sea. In striking a general average we have to remember that there * Tylor, Phil.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1871 - 726 páginas
...variety of climate, and some of its tributaries de* Tylor, Phil. Mag., 4th series, p. 268. 1850. scend from mountains of great height. The Mississippi is...the fluviatile sediment is thrown down and arrested in its way to the sea. In striking a general average we have to remember that there are large deserts... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1874 - 708 páginas
...sea, we can affirm how much on an average has been removed from the general surface in one year, and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate...afford us a fair test of ordinary denudation, because, nnlike the St. Lawrence and its tributaries, there are no great lakes in which the fluviatile sediment... | |
 | 1877 - 612 páginas
...for that river drains a country equal to more than half the continent of Europe, extends through 20 degrees of latitude, and therefore through regions...tributaries descend from mountains of great height. The • Phil. Mag., May, 1868; Feb., 1867. Climate and Time, chap. 20. See also Trans. Geol. Soc. of Glasgow,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1877 - 600 páginas
...for that river drains a country equal to more than half the continent of Europe, extends through 20 degrees of latitude, and therefore through regions...tributaries descend from mountains of great height. The • Phil. Mag., May, 1868 ; Feb., 1867. Climate and Time, chap. 20. See also Trans. Geol. Soc. of Glasgow,... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1878 - 702 páginas
...sea, we can affirm how much on an average has been removed from the general surface in one year ; and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate...tributaries, there are no great lakes in which the fluviatfle sediment is thrown down and arrested on its way to the sea. In striking a general average... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 páginas
...danger of our overrating the mean rate of waste by selecting" (as Mr. Croll and Geikie had done) " the Mississippi as our example. For that river drains...is thrown down and arrested on its way to the sea. In striking a general average we have to remember that there are large deserts in which there is scarcely... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1885 - 704 páginas
...we can affirm how much <jn an average lias been removed from the general surface in one year ; and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate...is thrown down and arrested on its way to the sea. In striking a general average we have to remember that there are large deserts in which there is scarcely... | |
 | James Croll - 1885 - 360 páginas
...for that river drains a country equal to more than half the continent of Europe, extends through 20 degrees of latitude, and therefore through regions...is thrown down and arrested on its way to the sea." * * " Student's Manual of Geology," p. 91 (second edition). Rough estimates have been made of the sediment... | |
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... been removed from the general surface in one year ; and there seems no danger of our overrating the mean rate of waste by selecting the Mississippi as our example, for that river drains a country equal to more than half the continent of Europe, extends... 
