... so that the amount of matter in any vertical column drawn from the surface to a level surface below the crust is now, and ever has been, approximately the same in every part of the earth. Geodesy - Page 92by Alexander Ross Clarke - 1880 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 450 pages
...approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock ; so that the amount of mutter in any vertical column, drawn from the surface to a level surface below the crust, is now and ever has been approximately the same in every part of the earth." Sir George Airy, the present... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1871 - 646 pages
...approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock ; so that the amount of matter iu any vertical column drawn from the surface to a level surface below the crust is now, and ever has been, approximately the same in every part of the earth. In order to make this hypothesis... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 446 pages
...there is an excess of matter approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock ; so that the amount of matter in any vertical...the surface to a level surface below the crust, is now and ever has been approximately the same in every part of the earth." Sir George Airy, the present... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1880 - 822 pages
...equal to the deficiency in the ocean as compared with an equal volume of rock. On this supposition the amount of matter in any vertical column drawn...from the surface to a level surface below the crust would be approximately the same in every part of the earth. We learn that the meridian of the greater... | |
| Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard - Himalaya Mountains - 1901 - 172 pages
...is au excess of matter approximately equal to the deficiency in the "Ocean when compared with rock : that the amount of matter in any vertical column drawn...approximately the same in every part of the Earth." (Clarke, Geodesy, page 98). According to the theory of M. Faye the excesses of matter under oceans,... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 446 pages
...there is an excess of matter approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock ; so that the amount of matter in any vertical column, drawn from the surface to a level siii'fnce below the crust, is now and ever has been approximately the same in every part of the earth."... | |
| A. B. Watts - Science - 2001 - 508 pages
...Earth's surface were the product of thermal contraction and expansion (Pratt, 1864, 1871). He stated that the amount of matter in any vertical column drawn...the surface to a level surface below the crust is now and ever has been, approximately the same in every part of the Earth. This statement implies (eg... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 452 pages
...there is an excess of matter approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock ; so that the amount of matter in any vertical...the surface to a level surface below the crust, is now and ever has been approximately the same in every part of the earth." Sir George Airy, the present... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1871 - 652 pages
...is an excess of matter approximately equal to the deficiency in the ocean when compared with rock j so that the amount of matter in any vertical column...the surface to a level surface below the crust is now, and ever has been, approximately the same in every part of the earth. In order to make this hypothesis... | |
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