 | 1842 - 428 σελίδες
...; and we may feel sure, that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains, above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 500 σελίδες
...this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over (under?) the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1845 - 654 σελίδες
...outbursts, and we may feel sure that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried, over the broad face of the ocean, every one of those mountains above which atolls row stand, like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1852 - 482 σελίδες
...and we may feel sure, that this sinking must have been immense in amount, as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains, above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful... | |
 | H. Stonehewer Cooper - 1882 - 490 σελίδες
...and we may well feel sure that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains above which atolls now stand like monuments marking the place of their former existence.' Thus on the island-mountain... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 228 σελίδες
...; and we may feel sure that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of these mountains above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence."... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 390 σελίδες
...barrier-reefs and atolls on the one hand, and fringing-reefs on the other, are laid down on a map, they offer a grand and harmonious picture of the movements...like monuments, marking the place of their burial. APPENDIX. APPENDIX [I.] CONTAINING A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE BEEFS AND ISLANDS IN THE COLOURED... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 602 σελίδες
...outburst, and we may feel sure, that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains, above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful... | |
 | Gerald Schubert, Donald Lawson Turcotte, Peter Olson - 2001 - 1016 σελίδες
...barrier-reefs and atolls on the one hand, and fringing-reefs on the other, are laid down on a map, they offer a grand and harmonious picture of the movements...like monuments, marking the place of their burial." In an introduction to The Works of Charles Darwin (Barrett and Freeman, 1987), JW Judd (in 1890) refers... | |
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... areas rising, with volcanic matter every now and then bursting forth through the vents or fissures with which they are traversed. We see other wide spaces slowly sinking without any volcanic outbursts ; and we may feel sure, that this sinking must... 