The Origin of Mountain Ranges Considered Experimentally, Structurally,

T. Mellard Reade

ISBN 10: 0282641823 / ISBN 13: 9780282641825

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2024

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Print on Demand. This book explores mountain ranges and the geological evidence linking their formation to the expansion of the Earth's crust due to temperature changes deep within the planet. Drawing on extensive research and evidence from around the globe, the author demonstrates how heat causes crustal material to expand, leading to compression and folding, which ultimately creates mountain ranges. The author places this within the context of the ongoing study of the Earth's crust and its dynamic nature, revealing the complex and fascinating processes that have shaped our planet's surface. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: The Origin of Mountain Ranges Considered Experimentally, Structurally,
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0282641823
• ISBN 13: 9780282641825
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Geology

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Excerpt from The Origin of Mountain Ranges Considered Experimentally, Structurally, Dynamically, and in Relation to Their Geological History

Tar Origin of mountain-ranges is a problem that has the crust of the Earth has been systematically studied. Standing this, I know of no work in the English language devoted entirely to a consideration of this important subject, or containing what may be considered a systematic theory of mountain-building. The line of geological thought in this country has hitherto run more in stratigraphical than dynamical grooves. The American geologists, forced into contact with the stupendous mechanical problems presented by the geology of their continent and great mountain ranges, have devoted considerable practical attention to dynamical geology. Still, scattered through the works of the great masters of geology who have flourished in our own country are to be found the germs of most true geological reasoning, dynamical and otherwise.

An attempt such as mine to provide a systematic treatise will probably be considered an ambitious one. Whether the theory here presented to the geological world be the true one or not will hardly be determined by such a consideration. The true test, as of everything geological, is time; and if it be found that the views here set forthbest explain the manifold aspects of Nature, and otherwise meet the conditions of the problem, the ideas will live; if not, they may still survive as partial truths.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.