Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 207
each these sedi-mentary deposits, testifies that during all the earlierstages of the Earths career water as such was absent,and as water subsequently appeared, it is clear that theconditions did not at firstallow it to form. We aresure, therefore, that therewas a time when water ex-isted only as… … Ideal section of a laccolithGilbert. A PLANETS HISTORY 171 ages, when the Earth wore her cloud-wrapper much asJupiter his now. That the seas were not once and yet are to-day, affordsproof positive that at some intermediate period they be-gan to be. A very long intermediate one it must havebeen,…
Cosmogony
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
