The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence of the sinking continent. (2) The wonderful uniformity... The United Service - Stran 631897Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Geologists' Association - 1927 - 842 strani
...frequency than others ; these are at 100 m. above sea level and 4,700 m. below sea level, corresponding to the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the sea. This, in conjunction with the theory of isostatic adjustment, is reasonably taken to indicate... | |
| American Geographical Society of New York - 1889 - 810 strani
...Prjevalsky's Fourth Journey of Exploration in Central Asia — The Formation of Transverse Valleys — The Mean Height of the Land and the Mean Depth of the Sea — The Geographical Distribution of Mean Wind-Velocity in the United States — The Universal... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 602 strani
...and this. is the more likely to occur on account of the great disproportion that we have seen exists between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean. Keeping this principle in view, we may, with some probability, suggest the successive stages by which... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 606 strani
...and this is the more likely to occur on account of the great disproportion that we have seen exists between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean. Keeping this principle in view, we may, with some probability, suggest the successive stages by which... | |
| 1885 - 572 strani
...and this is the more likely to occur on account of the great disproportion that we have seen exists between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean. Keeping this principle in view, we may, with some probability, suggest the successive stages by which... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1889 - 526 strani
...The length of the sections of land and ocean are in the proportion of their respective areas, while the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean are exhibited on a greatly increased 1 I have given a full summary of the evidence for the permanence... | |
| 1892 - 834 strani
...difficult to understand how such interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are: — (i) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
| 1893 - 664 strani
...OCEAN BASINS. By HUGH ROBERT MILL: D.So., FRSE three new arguments in favour of these views: — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 556 strani
...difficult to understand how such interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are: — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 560 strani
...difficult to understand how such interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are : — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
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