 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...superincumbent formations, by the expansive power forever struggling in the interior of the globe. It is thus we become acquainted with the existence of a power capable...mightiest mechanical exertions. If earthquakes, in our own time, rend the earth, dislocate its solid parts, and engulf portions of it hi the chasms they create,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 642 pages
...superincumbent formations, by the expansive power forever struggling in the interior of the globe, It is thus we become acquainted with the existence of a power capable...the mightiest mechanical exertions. If earthquakes, hi our own time, rend the earth, dislocate its solid parts, and engulf portions of it in the chasms... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...superincumbent formations, by the expansive power forever struggling hi the interior of the globe. It is thus we become acquainted with the existence of a power capable...the mightiest mechanical exertions. If earthquakes, hi our own time, rend the earth, dislocate its solid parts, and engulf portions of it in the chasms... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Geology - 1836 - 190 pages
...the foot of which the Bath waters of Morgan county, Virginia, rise, is full of remains of encrinites and cardia. composed of oxydes, as we may suppose...energetic, and had much less resistance opposed to it ? 5 These conclusions, to which geological opinions have been for some time tending, and which are... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...sujieriucumbent formations, by the expansive power forever struggling in the interior of the globe. It is thus we become acquainted with the existence of a power capable...mightiest mechanical exertions. If earthquakes, in our own time, rend the earth, dislocate its solid parts, and engulf portions of it in the chasms they create,... | |
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... granite mountains, — the whole truth flashes upon us, and we clearly understand, that these mountains have once existed at lower levels, and that they have been forced up through the superincumbent... 