 The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence of the sinking continent. (2) The wonderful uniformity...  The United Service - Σελίδα 631897Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1901 - 542 σελίδες
...The length of the sections of land and ocean are in the proportion of their respective areas, while the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean are exhibited on a greatly increased 1 I have given a full summary of the evidence for the permanence... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1889 - 523 σελίδες
...The length of the sections of land and ocean are in the proportion of their respective areas, while the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean are exhibited on a greatly increased 1 I have given a full summary of the evidence for the permanence... | |
 | 1897 - 928 σελίδες
...the largest surface of land. If the level rose only one hundred fathoms fourteen million square acres of land would be submerged. If it sank to the same...which would suffice to bring about a universal deluge. ARTHUR P. CROUCH. MR. From Macmillan's Magazine. CHARLES LAMB OF THE INDIA HOUSE. Every one knows that... | |
 | 1896 - 1086 σελίδες
...that its rise or fell would flood or lay bare the largest surface of land. If the level rose only 100 fathoms, fourteen million square miles of land would...suffice to bring about a universal deluge. ' ARCHER P. CROUCH. SOME PEKING POLITICIANS IT is a matter of common knowledge in China that Li Hungchang, when... | |
 | 1893 - 672 σελίδες
...places in geological times. He adduces. three new arguments in favour of these views : — (1) Tho enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
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