... at one end of the chain erupted lavas, indicating as perfect and complete fusion as the slags of furnaces, and at the other end simple quartz veins, having a structure precisely analogous to that of crystals deposited from, water. Between these there... The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 231864Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 480 pages
...strong argument in favor of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphism of gneissoid rocks was due to their having been at...and complete fusion as the slags of furnaces, and at tne other end simple quartz veins, having a structure precisely analogous to that of crystals deposited... | |
| Geological Society of London - 1858 - 914 pages
...strong argument in favour of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphosis of gneissoid rocks was due to their having been at...sufficiently great depth beneath superincumbent strata. It will, therefore, be seen that the application of the principles I have described leads to main-... | |
| Henry Clifton Sorby - 1858 - 66 pages
...strong argument in favour of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphosis of gneissoid rocks was due to their having been at...sufficiently great depth beneath superincumbent strata. It will, therefore, be seen that the application of the principles I have described leads to many very... | |
| 1864 - 968 pages
...strong argument in favor of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphism of gneissoid rocks was due to their having been at...the slags of furnaces, and at the other end simple quartz veins, having a structure precisely analogous to that of crystals deposited from, water. Between... | |
| 1864 - 484 pages
...strong argument in favor of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphism of gneissoid rocks was due to their having been at...the slags of furnaces, and at the other end simple quartz veins, having a structure precisely analogous to that of crystals deposited from water. Between... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1868 - 666 pages
...strong argument in favour of the supposition that the temperature concerned in the normal metamorphism of gneissoid rocks, was due to their having been at a sufficiently great depth under superincumbent strata. " The reader may now judge how far the views of Mr. Sorby, whom Mr. Forbes... | |
| Samuel James Shand - 1927 - 402 pages
...rocks formed at a high temperature, my chief conclusions are as follows. At one end of the chain are erupted lavas, indicating as perfect and complete...fusion as the slags of furnaces, and at the other end are simple quartz veins having a structure precisely analogous to that of the crystals deposited from... | |
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