The Cause of Earthquakes, Mountain Formation and Kindred Phenomena Connected with the Physics of the Earth1907 - 414 стор. |
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The Cause of Earthquakes, Mountain Formation and Kindred Phenomena Connected ... T J J B 1866 See Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
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Сторінка 361 - Meteorics" are certainly very remarkable. In the first sentence he says, " the distribution of land and sea in particular regions does not endure throughout all time, but it becomes sea in those parts where it was land, and again it becomes land where it was sea, and there is reason for thinking that these changes take place according to a certain system, and within a certain period.
Сторінка 361 - ... depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath the sea, for this is more moveable, and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity*.
Сторінка 346 - There must therefore be some excess of matter in the solid parts of the earth between the Pacific Ocean and the earth's centre, which retains the water in its place. This effect may be produced in an infinite variety of ways; and therefore, without data, it is useless to speculate regarding the arrangement of matter which actually exists in the solid parts belowf.
Сторінка 397 - The Greeks, who like ourselves, attributed the oscillations of the ground to the tension of elastic fluids, cited in favour of their opinion, the total cessation of the shocks at the island of Euboea, by the opening of a crevice in the Lelantine plain.
Сторінка 361 - ... he observes in continuation, "to derive our explanations from things which are obvious, and in some measure of daily occurrence, such as deluges, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions,^ and sudden swellings of the land beneath the sea ; for the last raise up the sea also; and when the same lands subside again, they occasion the sea to be let down. And it is not merely the small, but the large islands also...
Сторінка 345 - In fact the testimony of these coast-stations is rather in favour of the theory, as they seem to indicate, by excess of attraction towards the sea, that the contraction of the crust beneath the ocean has gone on increasing in some instances still further since the crust became too thick to be influenced by the principles of floatation, and that an additional flow of water into the increasing hollow has increased the amount of attraction upon stations on its shores.
Сторінка 294 - With such things then attached and placed below, the earth quakes above from the shock of great falling masses, when underneath time has undermined vast caverns ; whole mountains indeed fall in, and in an instant from the mighty shock tremblings spread themselves far and wide from that centre. And with good cause, since buildings beside a road tremble throughout when shaken by a waggon of not such very great weight; and they rock no less, where any sharp pebble on the road jolts up the iron tires...
Сторінка 361 - So of all other rivers ; they spring up, and they perish ; and the sea also continually deserts some lands and invades others. The same tracts, therefore, of the earth are not, some always sea, and others always continents, but everything changes in the course of time.
Сторінка 397 - The globe, it may be said, is agitated with the greater force in proportion as the surface has a smaller number of funnels communicating with the caverns of the interior. At Naples and at Messina, at the foot of Cotopaxi and of Tunguragua, earthquakes are dreaded only when vapors and flames do not issue from the craters.
Сторінка 399 - The last illustration of hypogene relationship between these regions occurred on Januarv 31 of the present year. On that date a heavy earthquake originated off the mouth of the Esmeralda River, in .Columbia. Seawaves inundated the coast, islands sank, and a volcano erupted. The newspapers of February 2 announced that cables between Jamaica and Puerto Rico had been interrupted, and on later dates it was reported that severe shocks had been felt among the West Indian islands, that six or seven submarine...