 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1892 - 1004 pages
...abruptly does the continental plateau rise from the oceanic trough that a depression of the sea-level, or an elevation of the plateau, for 10,000 ft., would...plateau. Were the continental plateau to be upheaved for 3, ixx) ft. the major portion of the Arctic Sea would become land. Thus, in general terms, we may say... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 802 pages
...oceanic trough, that a depression of the sea-level, or an elevation of the plateau, for 10,000 feet, would add only a narrow belt to the Pacific Coast...plateau. Were the continental plateau to be upheaved for 3000 feet, the major portion of the Arctic Sea would become land. Thus, in general terms, we may say... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Algeria - 1893 - 788 pages
...oceanic trough, that a depression of the sea-level, or an elevation of the plateau for 10,OOO feet would add only a narrow belt to the Pacific Coast between Alaska and Cape Horn," and notwithstanding the evidences in the fiords of Chili of recent submergence, the trough of the Pacific... | |
 | Botany - 1896 - 552 pages
...ocean trough, that a depression of the sea-level or an elevation of the plateau for ten thousand feet would add only a narrow belt to the Pacific coast between Alaska and Cape Horn." Much of the biological and geological data on which Prof. Button's paper was based have since been... | |
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... feet, would add only a narrow belt to the Pacific Coast between Alaska and Cape Horn, while the gain of land on the Atlantic slope of America between 30° NL and 40° SL would not be much greater. In the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere,... 