...augment the volume of the altered rocks. This increase of bulk, he says, must sometimes give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting...which the new chemical changes are developed. The same eminent German chemist has attempted to calculate the exact amount of distension to which the...

...augment the volume of the altered rocks. This increase of bulk, he siys, mu-t sometimes give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting...this eminent German chemist, of the exact amount of distension which the origin of new mineral products may cause, by adding to the volume of the rocks,...

...sometimes give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting the incumbent crust of earth ; and the same force may act laterally so as...this eminent German chemist of the exact amount of distension which the origin of the new mineral products may cause, by adding to the volume of the rocks,...

...give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting the incumbent crust of earth ; »nd the same force may act laterally so as to compress, dislocate, and '¡It the strata on each side of a mass in which the new chemical changes are developed. The calculations...

...augment the volume of the altered rocks. This increase of bulk, he says, must sometimes give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting the incumbent crust of the earth ; and the game force may act laterally so as to compress, dislocate, and tilt the strata on each side of a mass...

...expansion of the earth's crust by heat. Heat and chemical reactions, he said, would "give rise to a mechanical force of expansion capable of uplifting...act laterally so as to compress, dislocate, and tilt strata on each side."28 Catastrophists must have been baffled by such ignorance of the importance of...