 ... with great changes in the organic life of the globe. The air was doubtless at first unfit for the respiration of warm-blooded animals, and we find the higher forms of life coming gradually into existence as we approach the present period of a purer...  Underground Life, Or, Mines and Miners - Stran 10avtor: Louis Simonin - 1869 - 522 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1867 - 682 strani
...the form of carbonate of lime, of the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has been connected with great changes in the organic life of the globe....the primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out byBrongniart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the... | |
 | 1871 - 448 strani
...period of a purer air. Calculations based upon the probable amount of limestone in the earth's crust, lead us to conclude that the amount of carbon thus...in the form of carbonic acid has been so enormous, tbat we must suppose the earlier forms of air-breathing animals to have been peculiarly adapted to... | |
 | Thomas Sterry Hunt - 1878 - 550 strani
...the form of carbonate of lime, of the carbonic acid from the primeval atmosphere, has been connected with great changes in the organic life of the globe....primitive atmosphere was long since pointed out by Bronguiart, and our great stores of fossil fuel have been derived from the decomposition, by the ancient... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 652 strani
...amount of carbon thus removed in the form of carL.unic acid has been so enormous, that we must SUl)PO$O the earlier forms of air-breathing animals to have been peculiarly adapted to live in an atzuosphtru hich would probably be too impure to support znotkrn n'itoliaza life. The agency of plants... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 446 strani
...period of a purer air. Calculations based upon the probable amount of limestone in the earth's crust, lead us to conclude that the amount of carbon thus...probably be too impure to support modern reptilian life. Growing plauts under the stimulus of light possess, as is well known, the power to absorb carbonic... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 444 strani
...Calculations based upon the probable amount of limestone in the earth's crust, lead us to conclnde that the amount of carbon thus removed in the form...probably be too impure to support modern reptilian life. • Growing plants under the stimulus of light possess, as is well known, the power to absorb carbonic... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 448 strani
...period of a purer air. Calculations based upon the probable amount of limestone in the earth's crust, lead us to conclude that the amount of carbon thus removed in the form of carbouic acid has been so enormous, that wo must suppose the earlier forms of air-breathing animals... | |
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