 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 Seiten
...subter, and yivo/*ai, nascor, a word implying the theory that granite and gneiss are both nether' formed rocks, or rocks which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface. It is true that gneiss and all stratified rocks must have been deposited originally at the surface,... | |
 | Henry Samuel Boase - 1834 - 428 Seiten
...as a substitute for that of primary, — a word implying the theory that granite and gneiss are both nether-formed rocks, or rocks which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface : and to call the unstratified primary rocks Plutonic, and the stratified metamorphic, indicative of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 Seiten
...subter, and ywopMi, nascar; a word implying the theory that granite and gneiss are both netherfarmed rocks, or rocks which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface. It is true that gneiss and all stratified rocks must have been deposited originally at the surface,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 576 Seiten
...Principles of Geology the term " hypogene " for this purpose, derived from UTTO, under, and yivoju-ai, to be born ; a word implying the theory that granite,...assumed their present form and structure at the surface. It is true that all metainorphic strata must have been deposited originally at the surface, or on that... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1839 - 330 Seiten
...the Principles of Geology the term " hypogene" for this purpose, derived from wto, under, and y<w/M<, to be born ; a word implying the theory that granite,...assumed their present form and structure at the surface. It is true that all metamorphic strata must have been deposited originally at the surface, or on that... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 Seiten
...member of the trap group. HYPOGENE (UiTO, hypo, under; yivofiai, ginomai, to be formed or produced) ; nether-formed rocks, or* rocks which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface, such as granite, &c. Hypogene is a term proposed by Lyell instead of primary, because some granites... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 Seiten
...u8wp, hydor, water, and tyvrov, phyton, plant. HYPOGENE ROCKS. Those rocks which are nether-formed, or which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface, such as granite, gneiss, &c. This term, which includes both the plutonic and metamorphic rocks, is... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1841 - 486 Seiten
...gneiss, and the other crystalline formations are alike nether-formed Ch. I. ] FOUR CLASSES OF ROCKS. 2 1 rocks, or rocks which have not assumed their present form and structure at the surface. From what has now been said, the reader will understand that each of the four great classes of rocks... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1842 - 366 Seiten
...crystalline rocks. Mr. Lyell has proposed, as a substitute for primary, the term hypogene; meaning " nether-formed rocks, or rocks which have not assumed...their present form and structure at the surface." Elem. Geol. Vol. 1, p. 20. Rem. D'Halloy, Dr. Macculloch, Prof. Phillips, Mr. Lyell, and some others,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1845 - 430 Seiten
...crystalline rocks. Mr. Lyell has proposed, as a substitute for primary, the term hypogene; meaning " nether-formed rocks, or rocks which have not assumed...their present form and structure at the surface." Elcm. Gcol. Vol. I, P . 20. Rtm. D'Halloy, Dr. Macculloeh, Prof. Phillips, Mr. Lyell, and some others,... | |
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... must have reference to characters in which those rocks differ, both from the volcanic and from the unaltered sedimentary strata. 
