 | Henry Woodward - 1914 - 698 pages
...necessary for the respectable life of any scientific theory. " For the condition of equilibrium of figure, to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not," Dutton1 proposed " the name : • *tasy ". The corresponding adjective would be isostatic — the state... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1915 - 834 pages
...necessary for the respectable life of any scientific theory. "For the condition of equilibrium of figure, to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not," Dutton" proposed "the name isostasy." The corresponding adjective would be isostatic — the state... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1915 - 886 pages
...necessary for the respectable life of any scientific theory. " For the condition of equilibrium of figure, to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not," Dutton " proposed " the name isostasy." The corresponding adjective would be isostatic — the state... | |
 | 1892 - 1144 pages
...mountain-making. In it he proposes (on p. 53), the term isostasy for " the condition of equilibrium of figure to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not," and discusses " How nearly does the earth's figure approach to isostasy?" He speaks of the theory he... | |
 | University of California (1868-1952) - 1896 - 514 pages
...tGeol. Mag., Vol. XXV (1888), p. 291. I On Some Physical Changes in the Earth's Crust, Geol. Mag., Vol. XXVI, p. 47figure to which gravitation tends to reduce...observational geology, although the two, as is usual in such cases, show a certain amount of overlapping. Few geologists will be disposed to deny that great changes... | |
 | 1896 - 502 pages
...Some of the Greater Problems of Physical Geology, Bull. Philos. Soc. Wash., Vol. Xl, pp. 51-64. figure to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...observational geology, although the two, as is usual in such cases, show a certain amount of overlapping. Few geologists will be disposed to deny that great changes... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1894 - 1106 pages
...generally admitted. In 1888, CE Button proposed the term isostosy for " the condition of equilibrium to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not," that is, whether solid to the surface or partly liquid beneath it, and whatever its constitution. The... | |
 | Geological Survey of India - 1901 - 348 pages
...Bull. Phil. 8ac., Washington, Vol. XI (1892), p. 51. For the condition of equilibrium of figúrelo which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not, Dutton proposed the name isostasy. Whilst pointing out that the earthts crust would not be strong enough... | |
 | Geological Society of America - 1907 - 1224 pages
...would l>ea tendency to mitten or depress the surface. For this condition of equilibrium of figure, to which gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body,...irrespective of whether it be homogeneous or not, I propose the name isogtacy." In his explanations, Dutton laid emphasis on effects of erosion to a... | |
 | Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard, Sir Henry Hubert Hayden - 1907 - 122 pages
...would be a tendency " to flatten or depress the surface. For this condition of equilibrium of figure, to which " gravitation tends to reduce a planetary body, irrespective of whether it be homo" geneous or not, I propose the name isostasy. We may also use the corresponding " adjective isostatic.... | |
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... denser or lighter than others, its normal figure would no longer be spheroidal. Where the lighter matter was accumulated there would be a tendency to bulge, and where the denser matter existed there would be a tendency to flatten or depress the surface.... 
