 | 1842 - 428 páginas
...atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful an agent with respect to denudation, and consequently...climate of the earth, and on the distribution of organic beipgs, — I may be permitted to hope, that the conclusions derived from the study of coral formations,... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 500 páginas
...atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful an agent, with respect to denudation, and consequently...earth — and on the distribution of organic beings ; I may be permitted to hope that the conclusions derived from the study of coral formations, originally... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1845 - 654 páginas
...row stand, like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful an agent with respect 'to denudation, and consequently to the nature and thickness of the deposits iu accumulation, the sea must ever he when acting for prolonged periods on the land during either its... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 602 páginas
...atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their former existence. Reflecting how powerful an agent with respect to denudation, and consequently...when acting for prolonged periods on the land, during cither its slow emergence or subsidence ; reflecting, also, on the fmal effects of these movements... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1845 - 652 páginas
...an agent with respect to denudation, and consequently to the nature and thickness of the deposits ia accumulation, the sea must ever be when acting for...slow emergence or subsidence : reflecting also on the 6nal effects of these movements in the interchange of land and ocean-water on the climate of the earth,... | |
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... and we may feel sure, that this sinking must have been immense in amount as well as in area, thus to have buried over the broad face of the ocean every one of those mountains, above which atolls now stand like monuments, marking the place of their... 