 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 540 σελίδες
...A couple of degrees west of the longitude of Cape Verde the soundings are 2,900 fathoms. From this point the mean depth across the ocean may be estimated...pre-eminently the Orinoco and the Amazon, these vast rivers carrying their detritus far out to sea and helping to produce the configuration of the ocean bottom... | |
 | 1871 - 36 σελίδες
...47° 62° 70° 48° 59° 62° 48° 54° 50° 62° 62° 62° 72° 62° Parting from the African coast, the bed of the ocean sinks very rapidly. A couple...preeminently, the Orinoco and the Amazon, these vast rivers carrying their detritus far out to sea, and helping to produce the configuration of the ocean-bottom... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Department of Welfare - 1871 - 44 σελίδες
...rapidly. A couple of degrees west of the longitude of Cape Verde the soundings are 2,900 f athoiris. From that point the mean depth across the ocean may...preeminently, the Orinoco and the Amazon, these vast rivers carrying their detritus far out to sea, and helping to produce the configuration of the ocean-bottom... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 540 σελίδες
...A couple of degrees west of the longitude of Cape Verde the soundings are 2,900 fathoms. From this point the mean depth across the ocean may be estimated...pre-eminently the Orinoco and the Amazon, these vast rivers carrying their detritus far out to sea and helping to produce the configuration of the ocean bottom... | |
 | C. WYVILLE THOMSON - 1873 - 620 σελίδες
...and, second, an elevation, at which the soundings are only 1,900, the general result of this being a deep trough on the African side and a narrower and shallower trough on the American."1 lief erring to the chart (PL VII.), in which the greater depths are indicated by the deeper... | |
 | Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys - 1873 - 592 σελίδες
...and, second, an elevation, at which the soundings are only 1,900, the general result of this being a deep trough on the African side and a narrower and shallower trough on the American."1 Iteferriug to the chart (PI. VII.), in which the greater depths are indicated by the deeper... | |
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From this point the mean depth across the ocean may be estimated at about 2,400 fathoms, but from this there are two striking departures — first a depression, the depth of which is 3,100 fathoms, and second, an elevation at which the soundings are only... 