| 1868 - 530 pages
...modern ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil seawaters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...that derived from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil sea-waters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...that derived from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate... | |
| Charles Coffin Adams - 1870 - 252 pages
...often found enclosed in the crystals and pores of the primary rocks. " These," says Prof. TS Hunt, " are vastly richer in salts of lime and magnesia than...that derived from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust." And from all this united testimony, bearing... | |
| Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 520 pages
...ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil sea-waters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...that derived from the subaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive crust. The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate... | |
| Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 522 pages
...ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil sea-waters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...by chemical processes, all the carbonate of lime of OUT limestones, with the exception of that derived from the eubaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian... | |
| Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 530 pages
...ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil sea-waters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...stratified rocks. These are vastly richer in salts of limo and magnesia than those of the present sea, from which have been separated, by chemical processes,... | |
| Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1878 - 550 pages
...ocean with that of the sea in ancient times, whose composition we learn from the fossil sea-waters which are still to be found in certain regions, imprisoned...that derived from the subaerial decay of calcareous and magnesian silicates belonging to the primitive cfust. The gradual removal, in the form of carbonate... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 pages
...coonlK¿sitiun we learn from the fossil sea-waters which art' still to tic found in certain rt¿gions, imprisoned in the pores of the older stratified rocks. These are vastly richer in salts of limo and magmsia than those of the prosent sea, from which have been by chemical processes, all the... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 446 pages
...the pores of the older stratified rocks, and are the source of many of our saline mineral waters*. These are vastly richer in salts of lime and magnesia...lime of our limestones, with the exception of that deri%*ed from the sub-aerial decay of calcareous and inagnesian silicates belonging to the primitive... | |
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