 | George Darwin - 1907 - 632 pages
...rightly interpreted ? Do not the vast masses of basalt, the general appearance of mountain ranges, the violent distortions and fractures of strata, the...operative in geological antiquity than in the present age ? " Now, while I entirely agree with the general conclusion of Sir William Thomson, it is not unimportant... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...in that period from £th of that thickness up to its present thickness'. He thus asked rhetorically: Is not this, on the whole, in harmony with geological...operative in geological antiquity than in the present age?49 In other words, Thomson defended the possibility of more violent geological effects in earlier... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...in that period from ^th of that thickness up to its present thickness'. He thus asked rhetorically: Is not this, on the whole, in harmony with geological...operative in geological antiquity than in the present age?49 In other words, Thomson defended the possibility of more violent geological effects in earlier... | |
 | G. R. Beardsmore, J. P. Cull - 2001 - 340 pages
...little, or even decrease, with increasing depth of burial and compaction. CHAPTER FIVE Thermal Maturity Do not the vast masses of basalt, the general appearances...of increase of temperature downwards must have been more rapid ... in geological antiquity than in present age? On the Secular Cooling of the Earth - Prof.... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait William Thomson - 2022 - 596 pages
...basalt, the general appearances of mountain-ranges, the violent distortions and fractures of strata, tlw great prevalence of metamorphic action (which must...operative in geological antiquity than in the present age? (s.) But it may be objected to this application of mathematical Objections theory — (1), That the... | |
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Do not the vast masses of basalt, the general appearances of mountain-ranges, the violent distortions and fractures of strata, the great prevalence of metamorphic action (which must have taken place at depths of not many miles, if so much), all agree... 
