 | Jean André Luc - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...of what he considered as evident proofs of progress in the destruction of the coasts, had said : " It is true, we do not see the ," successive steps...phenomena " are sufficiently multiplied and varied, is as irreft sistible, as if we saw the changes actually effected " jn the moment of observation." I hope... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...hollowed, perforated, as they HUTTONfAN THEORY. 113 are farther advanced in the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion, and mark very clearly...saw the changes actually effected in the moment of observation. On such shores, the fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction,... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...the rocks hollowed and perforated, as they are further advanced in the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion, and mark, very clearly,...successive steps of this progress, exemplified in the same individual rock ; but we see "them clearly in different individuals ; and the conviction thus... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...deep, the rocks hollowed, perforated as they are further advanced in the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion, and mark, very clearly, so many different stages of decay. The fragments of rock, when detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...deep, the rocks hollowed, perforated, as they are farther advanced in the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion, and mark very clearly...saw the changes actually effected in the moment of observation. On such shores, the fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction,... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Society - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...deep, the rocks hollowed, perforated as they are farther advanced into the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion and mark very clearly so many different stages of decay. . . " On such shores the fragments of rock once detached become instruments of further destruction,... | |
 | C. D. Woodroffe - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...the rocks, prove, that the present line of the shore has been determined by the action of the sea ... It is true, we do not see the successive steps of...saw the changes actually effected in the moment of observation. (Playfair. l802) Rocky coasts occur where rugged or relatively resistant terrestrial lithology... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...deep, the rocks hollowed, perforated, as they are farther advanced in the sea, and at last insulated, lead to the same conclusion, and mark very clearly...saw the changes actually effected in the moment of observation. On such shores, the fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction,... | |
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... combined with the inequality of hardness in the rocks, prove, that the present line of the shore has been determined by the action of the sea. The naked and precipitous cliffs which overhang the deep, the rocks hollowed, perforated, as they are farther... 