Scriptural geology Volume 2; or, Geological phenomena, consistent only with the literal interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, upon the subjects of ... to an "Essay on the theory of the earth" - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...Besides its Weightand capacityfor cutting would be proportionably decreasing.---.And at all events, in that case,. these waters would cut from hill to hillaacross the whole large valley or plain; unless the valley was very hollow or channelled before-hand. But these gutters we see are not thus confined, but are upon the "plain." Nayindeed, where valleys are low and level between two hills, it even then sometimes happens that i' gutters" or minor valleys of denudation arecuti out for a river flowing in. the midst of the-greater valley. H Dr. Buckland, as will be seen by the foregoing quotations, in order I suppose to render the notion of " diluvial denudations" moreteasible, speaks of these waters,-when " acting-in mass," as being sufficient. to produce. these effects on "regular strata of chalk and oolitc," which= he considers'-"as " moderately 'yielding materials;" but he writes. very tdoubtingly as=to; the efforts of the diluvial waters out the P' transition and primitive-rocks",.-.-. "-u-i But it ought to be-remembered that =one»of3»the' strongest instances of» diluvial denudation which=lDr.' Buckland has produced, isin the Gorgei of-IBauman8 Hohle, in the valley of the' Bode, in Germany.-I '-This gorgeiis a deep, butnarrow channel in the rook-.5 'lilo the narrowest part 'it=is5 but5l00lfeet in?-'F breadth," whilei-its» "depthi? 'is about' F50.-"1'-But--tho'ugh'this igidfgte is-in-some parts, actually-deeper than it is broad by? hbout one"lae'l_f§' it-is1nevertheless' excavated-in' It "bed of tranai'tion-limestone" rock, according to Dr. Bu...
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- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1236417445
- ISBN 13 9781236417442
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- Anzahl der Seiten84
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