 ... at different altitudes, that the waters have risen, or subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated others. But the reason is, that the same land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed,...  Geological Magazine - Página 30editado por - 1879Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity.* It is proper ," he observes... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity.* U is proper,' he * ' Quod enim... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1879 - 790 páginas
...corroborated by independent writers. It has ever been the characteristic of the ignorant and uniuquiring peasantry to ascribe the occurrence of great boulders...ancient geographers and historians to the Scilly Isles. 1 Stoddart, Proc. Brist. Nat. Soc. for 1870, vol. vp 43. Fourthly, the insulation of St. Michael's... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1879 - 634 páginas
...Pythagoras. Pliny, and Aristotle should have believed the sea to be less changeable than the land. 1 Strabo, in opposing the opinions of Eratosthenes and...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable." Firstly, accounts of unusual disturbances of the sea by contemporary observers. The historical evidence... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 470 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity. It is proper to derive our explanations... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 466 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity. It is proper to derive our explanations... | |
 | T. J. J. See - 1907 - 156 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it eithet overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity. It is proper to derive our explanations... | |
 | 500 páginas
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity. It is proper to derive our explanations... | |
 | 1847 - 1194 páginas
...and cites the following from Slrabo : " We must therefore •scribe the cause [of changes of level] to the ground, — either to that ground which is...which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable, and on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity." (Principles of Geology, vol.... | |
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