 | 1858 - 878 Seiten
...with absolute moral certainty, that subsequently to the first appearance of the forms of animal life, there were at least twenty-eight successive convulsions of a like nature, each of which tea* attended with the complete destruction of the animals and plants which ti-isted on the globe.... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 Seiten
...first appearance of the forms of animal life, which took place after the fourth great convulsion of our globe, there were at least twenty-eight successive...destruction of the animals and plants which existed on the globe. In fine, after the latest of these catastrophes, when the last strata of the Tertiary... | |
 | 1867 - 1186 Seiten
...geologists have ascertained, with a high degree of probability, if not with absolute moral certainty, that subsequently to the first appearance of the forms...remains being buried in the manner already stated nnder the sedimentary deposits made by the new oceans which followed the crisis "In fine, after the... | |
 | 1867 - 1012 Seiten
...life, which, as has boon stated, took place after the fourth great convulsion of the glol)c, there wore at least twenty-eight successive convulsions of a...which existed upon the globe, their remains being bnried in the manner already stated tinder the sedimentary deposits made by the new oceans which followed... | |
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... animal remains contained in them, geologists have ascertained, with a high degree of probability, if not with absolute moral certainty, that subsequently to the first appearance of the forms of animal life, which, as has... 