 The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence of the sinking continent. (2) The wonderful uniformity...  THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS - Page 290by ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Geologists' Association - 1927 - 842 lehte
...frequency than others ; these are at 100 m. above sea level and 4,700 m. below sea level, corresponding to the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the sea. This, in conjunction with the theory of isostatic adjustment, is reasonably taken to indicate... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1889 - 810 lehte
...Prjevalsky's Fourth Journey of Exploration in Central Asia — The Formation of Transverse Valleys — The Mean Height of the Land and the Mean Depth of the Sea — The Geographical Distribution of Mean Wind-Velocity in the United States — The Universal... | |
 | 1885 - 572 lehte
...place in parallel bands, and are to some extent dependent on each other, an elevation of the sea-bed could hardly fail to lead to the submergence of large...form, and acquired the striking peculiarities that characterize its several sub-regions. During the early period, when the rich and varied temperate flora... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1889 - 526 lehte
...The length of the sections of land and ocean are in the proportion of their respective areas, while the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean are exhibited on a greatly increased 1 I have given a full summary of the evidence for the permanence... | |
 | 1892 - 834 lehte
...interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are: — (i) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
 | 1893 - 664 lehte
...MILL: D.So., FRSE three new arguments in favour of these views: — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
 | 1897 - 354 lehte
...If it sank to the same extent, ten million square miles would be exposed. The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean makes it impossible to believe that the land at present above the sea level has ever formed the bottom... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 556 lehte
...interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are: — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1900 - 560 lehte
...interchange could have been brought about. These phenomena are : — (1) The enormous disproportion between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean, which would render it very difficult for new land to reach the surface till long after the total submergence... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1901 - 542 lehte
...The length of the sections of land and ocean are in the proportion of their respective areas, while the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean are exhibited on a greatly increased 1 I have given a full summary of the evidence for the permanence... | |
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