 | Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 pages
...from what it would assume in virtue of the laws of equilibrium if it became fluid. • 4. That the depth of the sea is a small fraction of the difference...results," says La Place, " of analysis and experiment, rmght , in my opinion, to be placed among the small number of truths which geology presents." PRESERVATION... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...different from «hat it would assume in virtue of the laws of equilibrium, if it became fluid. 4. Thai the depth of the sea is a small fraction of the difference...earth. 5. That the irregularities of the earth, and the cause« whii h disturb its surface, have very little depth. 6. That the whole earth has been originally... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...different from what it would assume in virtue of the laws of equilibrium, if it became fluid : 4. That the depth of the sea is a small fraction of the difference...which disturb its surface, have very little depth : And 6. That the whole earth has been originally fluid. These results (he says) ought to be placed... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...different from what it would assume in virtue of the laws of equilibrium if it became fluid. 4. That the depth of the sea is a small fraction of the difference of the two axes of the eorth. 5. That the irregularities of the earth, and the causes which disturb its surface, have very... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1880 - 442 pages
...the extremely lively imaginations of the physical geographers of the day. But Laplace showed that the depth of the sea is a small fraction of the difference of the polar and equatorial axes of the globe, and of course his deductions did not relate in any way to measurements... | |
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1895 - 558 pages
...surface would take in becoming fluid, requires that the lowering of the level of the sea has been but a small fraction of the difference of the two axes of the pole and of the equator. Every hypothesis founded on a considerable displacement of the poles at the... | |
 | Geological Society of America - 1915 - 632 pages
...compensation nearly or quite complete at a finite depth. Thus Hayford lias proved Laplace's dictum that the irregularities of the earth and the causes which disturb its surface extend to but a small depth compared with the earth's radius. Of the three hypothetical depths for... | |
 | 1857 - 356 pages
...what it would assume in virtue of the laws of equilibrium if it became fluid. 4. That the depth ol the sea is a small fraction of the difference of the...fluid. "These results," says La Place, "of analysis ant] experiment ought, in my opinion, to be placed among the number of truths which geology presents."... | |
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... That the strata are very nearly regularly disposed around the centre of gravity of the earth. — 3. That the surface of this spheroid, of which the sea covers a part, has a figure a little different from what it would assume in virtue of the laws... 
