 From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am already led to infer that among the rocks forming the bulk of the stratified crust of our globe, from the oldest to the youngest formation, there are probably none which have been formed in very deep...  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence - Page 646edited by - 1885 - 794 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1886 - 666 pages
...suggestive than the sentence with which Agassiz begins one of his reports on these deep-sea dredgings ? " From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am...none which have been formed in very deep waters." In this conclusion and in his inference that the oceanic and continental areas have retained from the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 398 pages
...deposits of various kinds, and the materials at present scattered in special ways over the ocean floor. " From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am...waters. If this be so, we shall have to admit that areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the .200-fathom curve or thereabout... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...interesting only from a chemical poiut of view. — Zeitsek. far Cfiemie. GEOLOGY. DEEP-SEA DREDGINGS. " From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am...waters. If this be so, we shall have to admit that areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the 200-fathom curve or thereabout... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...special ways over the ocean floor. " From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am alreadyled to infer that among the rocks forming the bulk of...waters. If this be so, we shall have to admit that areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the 200-fathom curve or thereabout... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...research, the connection of which with deep-sea soundings cannot fail to lead to unexpected results From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am...areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the 200 fathom curve or thereabout, and the oceans at greater depth, have from the... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - Climatology - 1882 - 420 pages
...dredging in the Gulf Stream, published in 1869,* he says : " From what I have seen of the sea-bottom, I am already led to infer that among the rocks forming...areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the two hundred fathom curve or thereabout, and the oceans, at greater depth, have... | |
 | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz - Naturalists - 1885 - 436 pages
...were given as follows in the Museum Bulletin of the same year. REPORT UPON DEEP SEA DREDGINGS. 1 BY LOUIS AGASSIZ. From what I have seen of the deep-sea...now respectively occupied by our continents, as 1 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, I. No. 13, 1869, pp. 368, 369. circumscribed by the two hundred fathom curve... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1886 - 884 pages
...suggestive than the sentence with which Agassiz begins one of his reports on these deep-sea dredgings ? " From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am...none which have been formed in very deep waters." In this conclusion and in his inference that the oceanic and continental areas have retained from the... | |
 | Andrew A. Anderson - Earth (Planet) - 1887 - 204 pages
...intermittent.1 Which confirms our theory ! ! ! Again he writes, ' From what I have seen of the deep sea bottom, I am already led to infer that among the rocks...which have been formed in very deep waters. If this is so, we shall have to admit that the areas now respectively occupied by our continents, as circumscribed... | |
 | Linnean Society of London - Natural history - 1890 - 724 pages
...Bag " ; and he adds that in the whole of the stratified crust of our globe there is no part which has been formed in very deep waters. " If this be so, we shall have to admit that the areas now occupied by our continents, as circumscribed by the 200 fathoms curve or thereabouts, and the oceans,... | |
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