Download or read book The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 33 written by Robert Jameson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. 33: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; April-October, 1842 With respect to the heat from the internal source, if we re eet a moment, it will appear probable that it was formerly greater in amount, from a consideration of the phenomena which the most recent cataclysm has brought into view. The rents which we now see filled with protruded matter could not have been made by a force suficient to elevate the rocks in which they were made very much out of their original po sition, because in that case the rents would not probably have been filled. It was necessary that the strata should still rest on the melted matter when they were broken, in order that the pressure (operating, perhaps, in some other locality) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."