...in the buried sediments. The notion of a subterranean combustion or fermentation as a source of heat is to be rejected as irrational. A view identical...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquefied, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...in the buried sediments. The notion of a subterranean combustion or fermentation as a source of heat is to be rejected as irrational. A view identical...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquefied, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...generated, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow7. At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrium of pressure, consequent upon...

...letter to Sir Charles Lyell, in 1836. (Proc. GeoL Soc. London, II. 548.) Starting from the suggestions of Scrope and Babbage, that the isothermal horizons...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquefied, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...letter to Sir Charles Lyell, in 1836. (Proc. GeoL Soc. London, II. 548.) Starting from the suggestions of Scrope and Babbage, that the isothermal horizons...while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquefied, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust. Herschel was...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrinm of pressure, consequent upon a transfer of sediments? while the yielding surface reposes...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...eventually, with their included water, be raised to the inciting point, by which process gases would be generated, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow....

...earth's crust must rise as a conseqnence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and may eventually, with their inclnded water, be raised to the melting point, by which process gases would be generated, and earthquakes...

...earth's crust must rise as a consequence of the accumulation of sediments, he insisted that deeply-buried strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and...At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrinm of pressure, consequent upon a transfer of sediments? while the yielding surface reposes...