 | 1861 - 500 Seiten
...parallel to the line of deposition. ) These foldings, not less than the softening of the bottom strata, establish lines of weakness or of least resistance...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments. Hence we conceive that the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, although not the... | |
 | 1861 - 534 Seiten
...parallel to the line of deposition. These foldings, not less than the softening of the bottom strata, establish lines of weakness or of least resistance...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments. Hence we conceive that the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, although not the... | |
 | 1861 - 504 Seiten
...weakness or of least resistance in the earth's crust, and thus determine the contraction which resnl ts from the cooling of the globe to exhibit itself in...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments. Hence we conceive that the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, although not the... | |
 | 1873 - 562 Seiten
...determine the contraction which results from tlie cooling of the globe to exhibit itself in tfiose regions, and along those lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulated sediments." Hence, I added, <' we conceive the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, though not the sole nor even the... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 522 Seiten
...parallel to the line of deposition. These foldings, not less than the softening of the bottom strata, establish lines of weakness or of least resistance...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments. Hence wo conceive that the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall (and by Lyell), although... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 520 Seiten
...parallel to the line of deposition. These foldings, not less than the softening of the bottom strata, establish lines of weakness or of least resistance...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments. Hence we conceive that the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall (and by Lyell), although... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 524 Seiten
...of the underlying floor, or tht " bottom strata to establish lines of weakness or of least resutance in the earth's crust, and thus determine the contraction...bed is subsiding beneath the accumulated sediments." Hence, I added, "We conceive the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, though not the sole nor even the principal... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1875 - 530 Seiten
...bottom strata to establish lines of weakness or of least resistance in the earth's crust, and thu8 determine the contraction which results from the cooling...bed is subsiding beneath the accumulated sediments." Hence, I added, "We conceive the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, though not the sole nor even the principal... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1878 - 550 Seiten
...lines of weakness or of least resistance in the earth's crust, and thus determine the contraction whidi results from the cooling of the globe to exhibit itself...bed is subsiding beneath the accumulated sediments." Hence, I added, "We conceive the subsidence invoked by Mr. Hall, though not the sole nor even the principal... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1880 - 970 Seiten
...being established by the softening (if the bottom strata through the heat received from below, " would determine the contraction which results from the cooling...itself in those regions and along those lines where the ocean is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments." (5.) The stratified rocks become, in the partial... | |
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Appalachian and other American mountain regions. To explain such deposits he supposed that marine currents had formerly traversed these regions and by gradually depositing sediments of great weight had also sunk the crust till at length a great thickness... 
