The Abyss of Time, Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the Sixteenth CenturyFreeman, Cooper, 1980 - 251페이지 |
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... crust de- veloped blisters , wrinkles , and cracks . These irregularities of sur- face , though negligible on a global scale , constituted a surface of high relief viewed in human perspective . Thus were formed the primitive mountains ...
... crust de- veloped blisters , wrinkles , and cracks . These irregularities of sur- face , though negligible on a global scale , constituted a surface of high relief viewed in human perspective . Thus were formed the primitive mountains ...
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... crust increases with depth had long been known . Gott- fried Wilhelm Leibnitz had observed as much when he served as en- gineer in mines of the Harz Mountains beginning in 1680. His obser- vations there and elsewhere led him to theorize ...
... crust increases with depth had long been known . Gott- fried Wilhelm Leibnitz had observed as much when he served as en- gineer in mines of the Harz Mountains beginning in 1680. His obser- vations there and elsewhere led him to theorize ...
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... crust , and possibly for a still- molten core . When consolidation proceeded to the surface a crust of primeval granite was formed . As cooling continued , the crust was broken by gigantic shrinkage cracks from time to time , and ...
... crust , and possibly for a still- molten core . When consolidation proceeded to the surface a crust of primeval granite was formed . As cooling continued , the crust was broken by gigantic shrinkage cracks from time to time , and ...
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