 | Henry Woodward - 1889 - 646 lehte
...of valleys, etc., were due to the action of the sea. Again, that " the excavation of valleys could be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood of...water, which overtopped the hills from whose summits these valleys descend." It has been considered " they are due to cracks, rents and gorges of fissure... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Society - 1874 - 502 lehte
...of the strata a have never carried water. He at that time conceived that the excavation of valleys can be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood...which overtopped the hills from whose summits those valleys descend ;f being evidently influenced in this idea by the opinion, then so general, that the... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1889 - 654 lehte
...of valleys, etc., were due to the action of the sea. Again, that " the excavation of valleys could be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood of...water, which overtopped the hills from whose summits these valleys descend." It has been considered " they are due to cracks, rents and gorges of fissure... | |
 | 1918 - 1430 lehte
...possibly have been formed by existing streams." Phillips writes in 1829 :7 "The excavation of valleys can be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood of water which overtopped the hills, whose summits those vallies descend." Faith in Noah's flood as the dominant agent of erosion rapidly... | |
 | 1831 - 916 lehte
...satisfactory evidence than in each case each valley furnishes, it deserves to be mentioned. Some valleys cross and cut through vertical strata, which must...have shewn, that such a flood has once overflowed (he earth since the consolidation of its surface ; and as we have no proof of more than one such flood,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 lehte
...of opinion to be chronicled. Professor Phillips, writing in 1827, said, " The excavation of valleys can be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood...water which overtopped the hills, from whose summits the waters descend .... As we have no proof of more than one such flood, and as there seems to be no... | |
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The excavation of vallies can be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood of water which overtopped the hills, from whose summits those vallies descend. 