 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...it is in vain to urge as an objection, the improbability of the hypothesis which would imply tliat all the moving waters on the globe were once simultaneously...chalk .and green-sand*. We have pointed out that in Auvcrgne- these -are red marls' and variegated sandstones, which are undistinguishable in mineral composition,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...all the moving waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. The absurdity of pretending to identify, in age, all...referred to the period of our chalk and green-sand.* I have pointed out that in Auvergne there are red marls and variegated sandstones, which are undistinguishable... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...all the moving waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. The absurdity of pretending to identify, in age, all...rocksalt of Cardona is associated may be referred to the VOL. IV. M period of our chalk and green-sand.* I have pointed out that in Auvergne there are red marls... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 482 pages
...all the moving waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. The absurdity of pretending to identify, in age, all...referred to the period of our chalk and green-sand. I was led to this opinion when I visited Cardona in 1830, and before I was aware that M. Dufrenoy had... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - Geology - 1840 - 486 pages
...waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the red sandstones...Europe, they belong decidedly to many different epochs. It is already ascertained, that the red sandstone and red marl containing the rock-salt of Cardona... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1847 - 866 pages
...waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the red sandstones...marls in question, has at length been sufficiently Professor Schubert of Munich, the difference of leval is 598 feet. The last-mentioned traveller also... | |
 | 1859 - 914 pages
...waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the red sandstones...Europe, they belong decidedly to many different epochs." Nevertheless, while in this and numerous passages of like implication, Sir C. Lyell protests against... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1864 - 400 pages
...waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the red sandstones...Europe, they belong decidedly to many different epochs." Nevertheless, while in this and numerous passages of like implication, Sir C. Lyell protests against... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1864 - 388 pages
...waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the red sandstones...Europe, they belong decidedly to many different epochs." Nevertheless, while in this and numerous passages of like implication, Sir C. Lyell protests against... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1865 - 504 pages
...charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, hi age, all tho red sandstones and marls in question, has at length...Europe, they belong decidedly to many different epochs." Nevertheless, while in this and numerous passages of like implication, Sir C. Lyell protests against... | |
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It was in vain to urge as an objection the improbability of the hypothesis which implies that all the moving waters on the globe were once simultaneously charged with sediment of a red colour. But the rashness of pretending to identify, in age, all the... 
