 For a long time it was accepted without hesitation that these bodies required great heat for their first consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1855 asserted without...  Science - Page 172edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1856 - 454 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 500 pages
...consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1855 asserted without reserve...corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes." Director Haidingcr, in 18C1, said " With our present knowledge of natural laws these characteristically crystalline... | |
 | 1855 - 480 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2nd. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3d. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4th. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5th. That their average specific gravity is about... | |
 | John Lawrence Smith - 1873 - 418 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action, corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that... | |
 | John Lawrence Smith - 1873 - 408 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...action, corresponding to that of terrestrial volcanoes. 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity is about that... | |
 | 1887 - 590 pages
...consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1855 asserted, without reserve,...With our present knowledge of natural laws, these chai-acteristically crystalline formations could not possibly have come into existence except under... | |
 | John Lawrence Smith - 1884 - 692 pages
...meteoric masses have a community of origin. 2. At one period they formed parts of some large body. 3. They have all been subject to a more or less prolonged...igneous action, corresponding to that of terrestrial rvolcanoes* 4. That their source must be deficient in oxygen. 5. That their average specific gravity... | |
 | 1886 - 920 pages
...consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith, in 1855, asserted, without reserve,...rocks of the earth, as shown by the experiments of M. Daubrde, strengthened this conviction. Mr. Sorby, in 1877, said : " It appears to me that the conditions... | |
 | 1887 - 596 pages
...consolidation. Their resemblance to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1855 asserted, without reserve,...rocks of the earth, as shown by the experiments of M. Daubre'e, strengthened this conviction. Mr. Sorby, in 1877, said: — "It appears to me that the conditions... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 502 pages
...to the earth's volcanic rocks was insisted on by mineralogists. Professor J. Lawrence Smith in 1805 asserted without reserve that " they have all been...rocks of the earth as shown by the experiments of M. Danbree strengthened this conviction. Mr. Sorby in 1877 said, " It appears to me that the conditions... | |
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