 ... and ocean beds has arisen from the mass having contracted unequally in becoming solid from a fluid state ; and that below the sea-level, under mountains and plains, there is a deficiency of matter, approximately equal in amount to the mass above the...  Geodesy - Page 92by Alexander Ross Clarke - 1880 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 446 pages
...says8 "The variety we see in the elevation and depression of the earth's surface, in mountain and plain and ocean beds, has arisen from the mass having contracted unequally, in becoming solid from a fluid state, and that below the sea level, under nioun' Professor Benjamin I'eii-ce, (Proc. Am. Acnil.of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 452 pages
...says8 "The variety we see in the elevation and depression of the earth's surface, in mountain and plain and ocean beds, has arisen from the mass having contracted unequally, in becoming solid from a fluid state, and that below the sea level, under moun1 Professor Henjamin Peiroe, (Proc. Am. Acad. of Arts... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1871 - 652 pages
...we see in the elevation and depression of the earth's surface in mountains and plains and ocean-beds has arisen from the mass having contracted unequally in becoming solid from a fluid state ; and that below the sea-level, under mountains and plains, there is a deficiency of matter approximately... | |
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