 | Jean André Luc - 1809 - 456 páginas
...verifying the generalization which I have given of them in different works. " If indeed" he continues, " a river consisted of ''• a single stream, without branches, running in a ." strait valley, it might be supposed that some great " concussion, or some powerful torrent, had... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1837 - 490 páginas
...conclusion, which best suited the theory which he was occupied in illustrating. " If indeed," he continues, " a river consisted of a single stream, without branches,...and these, again, sub-divided into an infinity of small ramifications ; it becomes strongly impressed upon the mind, that all these channels have been... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1865 - 398 páginas
...the streams, unless in the action of the rains and streams themselves ? " If, indeed," says Playfair, "a river consisted of a single stream, without branches,...to the ocean ; but when the usual form of a river js considered, 1 Hutton's Theory of the Earth, vol. ii. p. 401. the trunk divided into many branches,... | |
 | William Morris Davis - 1908 - 168 páginas
...infinitely improbable if each of these valleys were not the work of the stream that flows in it. ... When the usual form of a river is considered, the...branches which rise at a great distance from one another, ... it becomes strongly impressed upon the mind that all these channels [valleys] have been cut by... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1912 - 164 páginas
...teaching in regard to our branch of the subject, may be expressed in the words of his disciple : " When the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at great distance from one another, and these again are subdivided into an infinity of smaller ramifications,... | |
 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology - 1926 - 264 páginas
...infinitely improbable, if each of these valleys were not the work of the stream that flows in it. "If indeed a river consisted of a single stream without branches,...great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean.; but, when the usual form of a river is... | |
 | 1913 - 68 páginas
...improbable, if each of these valleys were not the "work of the stream that flows in it. "If indeed a river consisted of a single stream, without branches,...considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which ri&e at a great distance from one another, and these again subdivided into an infinity of smaller ramifications,... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1928 - 160 páginas
...teaching in regard to our branch of the subject, may be expressed in the words of his disciple : " When the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at great distance from one another, and these again are subdivided into an infinity of smaller ramifications,... | |
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If, indeed, a river consisted of a single stream without branches, running in a straight valley, it might be supposed that some great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened at once the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean;... 