 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...cooled at the surface as long as there was perfect freedom of motion in the igneous fluid, and concludes that "the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth of the... | |
 | 1847 - 492 Seiten
...cooled at the surface as long as there was perfect freedom of motion in the igneous fluid, and concludes that "the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth of the... | |
 | 1844 - 450 Seiten
...in which the solid shell forms one-half of the mass, and another in which it forms only one- tenth. These statements will convey a general idea of the...minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - 866 Seiten
...Hopkins announces as that to which his researches have finally conducted him, is thus expressed : " Upon the whole, then, we may venture to assert, that...minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...cooled at the surface as long as there was perfect freedom of motion in the igneous fluid, and concludes that "the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth of the... | |
 | Thomas Bassnett - 1854 - 266 Seiten
...equinoxes be also unaffected ? Mr. Hopkins has entered into such an investigation, and concludes : " Upon the whole, then, we may venture to assert that...minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | T. BASSNETT - 1854 - 254 Seiten
...unaffected ? Mr. Hopkins has entered into such an investigation, and concludes : " Upon the whole, then, wo may venture to assert that the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | JAMES BRADFORD BABBITT - 1875 - 272 Seiten
...allowance for certain doubtful elements, Mr. Hopkins' s researches conducted him to the conclusion ''that the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | John Parkin - 1880 - 540 Seiten
...give the result at which the writer has arrived. Mr. Hopkins remarks: " Upon the whole, therefore, we may venture to assert, that the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 422 Seiten
...probably considerably greater than its inferior limit as above determined. Upon the whole, therefore, we may venture to assert that the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth or one-fifth... | |
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... the minimum thickness of the crust of the globe, which can be deemed consistent with the observed amount of precession, cannot be less than one-fourth of the earth's radius... 