 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1859 - 444 pages
...1 " The hypothesis," says Sir Roderick JIurchison, in his newly-published edition of " Siluria," " that all the earliest sediments have been so altered...former life which may have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormously thick and often finely levigated deposits beneath the lowest fossiliferous... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock, Charles Henry Hitchcock - Geology - 1860 - 442 pages
...crystalline than the fossiliferous beds above them, have yet afforded no sign of former beings." " The hypothesis that all the earliest sediments have...enormously thick and varied deposits beneath the lowest fossiliferous rocks, and in which, if animal remains had ever existed, some traces of them would certainly... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...14th, 1859" t p. 3+3. I " The hypothesis that all the earliest sediments have been во altered a* to have obliterated the traces of any relics of former life which may have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormously thick, and often find r levigated deposits between the lowest fossiliferous... | |
 | James Challis - Bible - 1861 - 176 pages
...successive generations of distinct organic types1. 1 This assertion rests on the following authorities. "The hypothesis that all the earliest sediments have...former life which may have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormously thick and often finely levigated deposits beneath the lowest fossiliferous... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock, Charles Henry Hitchcock - Geology - 1862 - 434 pages
...crystalline than the fossiliferous beds above them, have yet afforded no sign of former beings." " T£ie hypothesis that all the earliest sediments have been...enormously thick and varied deposits beneath the lowest fossiliferous rocks, and in which, if animal remains had ever existed, some traces of them would certainly... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 pages
...whose 1 " The hypothesis," says Sir Roderick Mnrchison, in his newly-published edition of " Siluria," " that all the earliest sediments have been so altered as to have obliterated the traces of any relies of former lit'o which limy have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormonsly... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock, Charles Henry Hitchcock - Geology - 1866 - 448 pages
...crystalline than the fossiliferous beds above them, have yet afforded no sign of former beings." " The hypothesis that all the earliest sediments have...by examples of enormously thick and varied deposits beiiea'h the lowest fossiliferous rocks, and in which, if animal remains had ever existed, some traces... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1869 - 436 pages
...considered very low down indeed, and near the base of the platform of rocks in which rest entombed altered as to have obliterated the traces of any relics...former life which may have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormously thick and often finely levigated deposits beneath the lowest fossiliferous... | |
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that all the earliest sediments have been so altered as to have obliterated the traces of any relics of former life which may have been entombed in them, is opposed by examples of enormously thick and often finely levigated deposits beneath the lowest... 