 | Edward Nares - 1834 - 366 頁
...however copy what Mr. Lyell says of it:— " The ruins of an older world," said Hutton, " are visible in the present structure of our planet; and the strata...beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existent continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition, or mechanical... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 468 頁
...noble a project. Hitttonian theory. — " The ruins of an older world," said Hutton, " are visible in the present structure of our planet; and the strata...continents have been once beneath the sea, and were i>rmed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 頁
...so noble a project. Huttonian theory. — "The ruins of an older world," said Hutton, " are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...the sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analagous to those of more ancient date. Although loosely deposited along the bottom of the ocean,... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 頁
...depression of extensive tracts of land. " The ruins of an older world," he observes, " are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chymical decomposition, or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - 866 頁
...so noble a project. Huttonian theory. — " The ruins of an older world," said Hutton, " are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, » Cuvier, Elogc de Dcsmarest. f Ed. Phil. Trans. 1788. and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1848 - 186 頁
...which he took the side opposed to Werner. " The ruins of an older world," said he, " are visible on the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of prae-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1903 - 654 頁
...observations, were clear and convincing to all studious minds : — " The ruins of an older world are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The some forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 頁
...so noble a project. Huttonian theory. — "The ruins of an older world," said Button, " are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to Ihe sea, where they are spread out, and form strata analogous to those of more ancient date. Although... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1897 - 900 頁
...London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.) """THE ruins of an older world are visible in the present •I structure of our planet ; and the strata which now...form strata analogous to those of more ancient date." These memorable words of Hutton, written more than a century ago, have been appropriately selected... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 頁
...so noble a project. Huttonian theory. — ' The ruins of an older world,' said Hutton, ' are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata...rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, * Ed. Phil. Trans. 1788. where they are spread out, and form strata analogous to those of more ancient... | |
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The ruins of an older world,' said Hutton, ' are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces... 
