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Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples : with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depression of large portions of the earth's surface in remote periods and to prove that those causes continue in action at the present time : with a supplement of Conjectures on the physical condition of the surface of the moon (1847)

Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 · [London] : Privately printed · leaf 31

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27 BABBAGE ON THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS. of such remains, but presenting all the appearances of former fusion, resting on, separated by, and existing under, other beds of demon¬ strably marine formation. If, during that former state of fusion, rents should have been formed through several of the… … wards. If, on the contrary, older dykes had penetrated all the strata, it is possible to suppose such a degree of fusibility in the older dyke, or such chemical relation to the melted bed, that the portions of the dyke passing through that bed should be obliterated, whilst those that traverse the…

Historical geology · Geology, Stratigraphic -- Italy -- Pozzuoli · Lunar geology

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