 | Russell Stafford Knappen - 1915 - 184 Seiten
...ser. 1847, p. 176 and vol. 22, 1867. ¿/Hunt, T. Sterry, Am. Jour. Sei., 2nd ser., vol. 31, p. 392. the cooling of the globe, to exhibit itself in those...lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulating sediments ." In 1866 George L. Vose in his book on Orographie Geology suggested that the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1908 - 762 Seiten
...borders is so exact that the rule-of-three form of statement cannot be far from the truth. As the size of the Appalachians to the size of the Atlantic, so...mountain formation are worthy of attention. § 42. Views of Leconte. — This veteran geologist gave great attention to mountain formation throughout... | |
 | 750 Seiten
...borders is so exact that the rule-of-three form of statement cannot be far from the truth. As the size of the Appalachians to the size of the Atlantic, so...mountain formation are worthy of attention. § 42. Views of Leconte. — This veteran geologist gave great attention to mountain formation throughout... | |
 | 1873 - 1024 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... | |
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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... 
