 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 Seiten
...decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...contorted. ' Although Hutton had never explored any region ofactivevolcanos, he had convinced himself that basalt and many other trap-rocks were of igneous origin,... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1834 - 366 Seiten
...decomposition, or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." " He imagined, in short, that the continents were first gradually destroyed, and when their ruins had... | |
 | John M. Moffatt - 1835 - 854 Seiten
...decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...heat, and then heaved up, fractured and contorted."* The theory of Hutton was admirably illustrated, and ably supported. by Professor Playfair, of Edinburgh,... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1837 - 490 Seiten
...decomposition, or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." But Hutton, intent only on proving the vast antiquity of the earth, carried his sweeping conclusions... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 Seiten
...rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analagous to those of more ancient date. Although loosely deposited...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." • Ed. Phil Trans. 17*3. Although Hutton had never explored any region of active volcano*, he had... | |
 | 1842 - 748 Seiten
...decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." " The absence of stratification in granite, and its analogy, in mineral character, to rocks which he... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 Seiten
...decomposition, or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out and form strata analogous...deposited along the bottom of the ocean, they become afterward altered and consolidated by volcanic heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted."... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1848 - 186 Seiten
...decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." He demonstrated by various arguments and experiments which subsequent knowledge has confirmed, that... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1903 - 654 Seiten
...the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out and form new strata analogous to those of more ancient date. Although...heat, and then heaved up, fractured, and contorted." In William Smith (1769-1839) we have a man of humble origin, born at Churchill in Oxfordshire, who,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1897 - 900 Seiten
...decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous to those of more ancient date." These memorable words of Hutton, written more than a century ago, have been appropriately selected... | |
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... planet, and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest... 
