 Tidal action (itself partly due to the sun's agency) exercises here a comparatively slight influence. The effect of oceanic currents (mainly originating in that influence), though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter...  A Treatise on Astronomy - Page 201by John Frederick William Herschel - 1834 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horticulture - 1834 - 550 pages
...entirely new to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced, the increase of pressure over larpe spaces in the bed of the ocean, and diminution over corresponding portions of the land, we are... | |
 | Horticulture - 1835 - 648 pages
...entirely due to the abrasion of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...pressure over large spaces in the bed of the ocean, and diinunition over corresponding portions of the land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the elastic... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...entirely due to the abrasion of wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...pressure over large spaces in the bed of the ocean, and corresponding portions of the land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the elastic force of subterraneous... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1853 - 608 pages
...though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter abraded ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...and relieved on the other, may break forth in points where the resistance is barely adequate to their retention, and thus bring the phenomena of even volcanic... | |
 | C. B. - Bible and geology - 1853 - 400 pages
...entirely due to the aberration of the wind and rain, and the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...ocean, and diminution over corresponding portions of land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the elastic power of subterranean fires, thus repressed... | |
 | Geology - 1857 - 526 pages
...are only in part the effect of solar influence snd the alternate action of the seasons ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced, the increase of pressure over large spam iu the bed of the ocean, and diminution over corresponding portions of the land, we are not at... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1867 - 568 pages
...though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter abraded; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the elastic force of sul> * Outlines of Astronomy, 1883. terranean fires, thus repressed on the one hand and released... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Light - 1867 - 332 pages
...though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter abraded ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...and diminution over corresponding portions of the u 2 land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the elastic power of subterranean fires, thus repressed... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1868 - 234 pages
...though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter abraded ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...and relieved on the other, may break forth in points where the resistance is barely adequate to their retention, and thus bring the phenomena of even volcanic... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1869 - 566 pages
...though slight in abrasion, is powerful in diffusing and transporting the matter abraded ; and when we consider the immense transfer of matter so produced,...the land, we are not at a loss to perceive how the clastic force of sub504 LECTURE xm. tcrranean fires, thus repressed on the one hand and released on... | |
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