 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845
...indicate the following succession of events. First, the country represented in the frontispiece (PI. I.) acquired its present geographical configuration,...bottom of the sea, and even occasionally the face of a sicep cliff, might all be polished and grooved by this machinery ; but no flood of water, however violent,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845
...icebergs and islands of floating ice coming down from the north, " which, as they grounded on the coast or on shoals, pushed along all loose materials of sand...fragments of hard stone were frozen into their lower surface, scooped out grooves in the subjacent solid stratra." There is little difficulty as respects... | |
 | 1851
...which, as they grounded on the coast and on shoals, pushed along all loose materials of sand and pebble, broke off all angular and projecting points of rock,...fragments of hard stone were frozen into their lower surface, scooped out grooves in the subjacent solid strata." In this manner he conceives that sloping... | |
 | 1853
...which came from the north, and, as they grounded on the coast and on shoals, pushed along alKtlie looae materials of sand and pebbles, broke off all angular...scooped out grooves in the subjacent solid strata." Now, the floating and stranding of icebergs are familiar facts ; but no one ever saw a sea-bottom worn... | |
 | 1860
...currents from the north, charged with mud, sand and boulders, which, as they grounded on the bottom, pushed along all loose materials of sand and pebbles,...were frozen into their lower surfaces, scooped out furrows and grooves in the subjacent rocks. When the icebergs melted, the soft and loose insoluble... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1864 - 333 pagina’s
...loose materials of sand and pebbles, smoothed and rounded the northern sides of ledges and mountains, and, when fragments of hard stone were frozen into their lower surfaces, grooved and polished the rocks with which they camo in contact. When the icebergs and floes melted,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865
...geographical configuration, so far as relates to the older rocks, under the joint influence of elevating and denuding operations. >Secondly, a gradual submergence...scooped out grooves in the subjacent solid strata. Thirdly, after the surface of the rocks had been smoothed and grated upon by the passage of innumerable... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1865
...loose materials of sand and pebbles, smoothed and rounded the northern sides of ledges and mountains, and, when fragments of hard stone were frozen into their lower surfaces, grooved and polished the rocks with which they came in contact. When the icebergs and floes melted,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1872 - 356 pagina’s
...Mr. Trimmer's last paper on Boulder-Clays, Journal of the Geological Society, May 1858, p. 171.— WS stone were frozen into their lower surfaces, scooped out grooves in the subjacent solid strata. Thirdly, after the surface of the rocks had been smoothed and grated upon by the passage of innumerable... | |
 | Samuel Milligan Frazier - 1904 - 491 pagina’s
...loose materials of sand and pebbles, smoothed and rounded the northern sides of ledges and mountains, and, when fragments of hard stone were frozen into their lower surfaces, grooved and polished the rocks with which they came in contact. When the icebergs and floes melted,... | |
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Secondly, a gradual submergence then took place, bringing down each part of the land successively to the level of the waters, and then to a moderate depth below them. Large islands and bergs of floating ice came from the north, which, as they grounded... 