The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of sun and moon that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there would be no sensible rise and fall of water relatively to the land. Mathematical and Physical Papers - Seite 323von William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1890Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Woodward - 1878 - 638 Seiten
...afford a decisive argument against the earth's interior liquidity." 5 But there remain the tides. " The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 826 Seiten
...any issue that may here and there be opened for its outward escape " (as Poulett Scropo called it) ! the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land. The state of the case is shortly this: — The hypothesis of a perfectly rigid crust containing liquid... | |
| Osmond Fisher - 1881 - 320 Seiten
...diminished. Sir Wm. Thomson says: "The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land 4 ." Mr George Darwin has 1 "Geol. Mag." Vol. vp 507. 2 "Problems of Eotary Motion." "Smithsonian Contributions,"... | |
| Osmond Fisher - 1881 - 332 Seiten
...diminished. Sir Wm. Thomson says: "The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...sensible tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land4." Mr George Darwin has 1 "Geol. Mag." Vol. vp 507. * "Problems of Rotary Motion." "Smithsonian... | |
| Osmond Fisher - 1881 - 332 Seiten
...different. The lastnamed eminent physicist says that unless the earth as a whole were extremely rigid, "the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the water of the ocean up and down with it, and there... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1882 - 996 Seiten
...and of the sun's and moon's attractions." It would yield, indeed, so freely to these attractions " that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean...it, and there would be no sensible tidal rise and full of water relatively to land." 5 Mr. George H. Darwin in the series of papers already referred... | |
| Alfred John Jukes-Browne - 1884 - 574 Seiten
...oceanic tides.2 He says that, " the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters...tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land." He concludes that the mass of the earth " is on the whole more rigid than a continuous solid globe... | |
| Alfred John Jukes-Browne - 1884 - 546 Seiten
...the strain, and would be subject to periodic deformations similar to oceanic tides.3 He says that, " the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1885 - 1032 Seiten
...yield, indeed, so freely to these attractions " that it would simply carry the waters of the осеип up and down with it, and there would be no sensible...tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land." G Prof. G. II. Darwin, in the series of papers already referred to, has investigated mathematically... | |
| Joseph Prestwich - 1888 - 714 Seiten
...the supposition that a molten nucleus underlies a superficial crust, Sir William Thomson says that the solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of the sun and moon, that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there... | |
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