To these illustrations of growing heterogeneity, which, though deduced from the known laws of matter, may be regarded as more or less hypothetical, Geology adds an extensive series that have been inductively established.
The deduction here drawn from the established truths of geology and the general laws of life, gains immensely in weight on finding it to be in harmony with an induction drawn from direct experience.
And Leonardo da Vinci had advanced in geology to the conception of the deposition of marine strata as the origin of fossils.
According to Beatson's Saint Helena, introductory chapter, and Darwin's Journal of Researches in Geology and Natural History, pp.
Bogs, independently of their importance in geology as explaining the origin of some kinds of mineral coal, have a present value as repositories of fuel.
He then settled for some years as a medical practitioner at Penzance; there geology engaged his particular attention, and he became secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.
His attention was given not only to geology but to zoology, and especially to the land-mollusca and to the vertebrates.
His principal publications were: Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia (1870), and Manual of the Geology of India, with H.
And Mr. Haeckel himself would not allow that any man is entitled to a hearing until he comprehends Biology, Botany, Comparative Anatomy, Zoology, Geology and Paleontology.
It is by his Theory of the Earth that Hutton will be remembered with reverence while geology continues to be cultivated.
To its influence much of the sound progress of British geology must be ascribed.
Now, on the other hand, ingeology and cosmology, the case is stronger.
The Mosaic cosmogony, indeed, gives the succession of natural births; and probably the general outline of such a succession will be more and more confirmed as geology advances.
As a matter of fact, the textbooks do treat the various "ages" of geology as if they corresponded to certain strata of the earth's crust.
But to the present day geology has failed to furnish evidence that such a link at one time existed.
Shaler, Professor of Geology in Harvard, wrote: "It is not proved that a single species of the two or three millions now on earth has been established by natural selection.
Shaler, Professor of Geology in Harvard, asserts that "it has not been proved that a single species has been established solely or even mainly by the operation of Natural Selection.
Geology abounds with creatures of the intermediate class.
And so evolutionists generally, while giving up geology as hopeless in regard to the evolution of plants and animals, cling to the doctrine that man has ascended, through long ages of development, from the brute.
The reading of Le Conte's and Dana's text-books of geology and various other treatises supplied the data on palaeontology embodied in the first chapters of the book.
These are his words: "Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.
The infidel substitutes progression for Deiety;--Geology robs him of his God.
Even a cursory study of such texts as Dana's "Manual of Geology" will reveal that the development of the plants and animals through the "ages" of speculative geology does not move forward like a steadily rising flood.
The works on geology may be consulted if required.
Our actual geology does not confirm this last fact; but a proper explanation of the biblic words would confirm the truth.
The geology of America does not differ essentially from that of the old world, the strata and the emersion from the waters are not newer: species long extinct have also preceded those now peopling the earth, the waters and the air.
The value of fossils in geology consists in the use which is made of them in determining the origin and age of strata.
This principle, so obvious to any one who allows himself to reason from the facts which geology presents, has sometimes been regarded as at variance with the Mosaic account of the creation.
There are no facts ingeology which point to a different conclusion.
But there is no evidence from geology that man existed till after the close of the tertiary period.
For general description: The Geologyand Agriculture of Louisiana (Baton Rouge, Agric.
He was distinguished for his researches on the geology of the French Alps, being engaged on the geological survey of the departments of Isere, Drome and the Hautes Alpes, of which he prepared the maps and explanatory memoirs.
Little is known of the geology of the country in which this Tunnel is situate, notwithstanding the popularity of the natural bridges of the State.
The attributes of a practical mineralogist aided him greatly in the culture of a branch of geology to which Delesse has rendered eminent services, in the recognition of rocks of igneous origin and of others allied to them.
Five years later he returned to Paris, where he continued his university duties, at first as deputy of the course of geology at the Sorbonne, then as master of the conferences at the Superior Normal School.
There has been geographical diversity in every previous geological epoch; it is, therefore, a question of geology as well as of biology.
The upward and downward movements which any country has undergone, and the succession of such movements, can be determined with much accuracy; but geology alone can tell us nothing of lands which have entirely disappeared beneath the ocean.
There is nothing that the study of geology teaches us that is more certain or more impressive than the extreme instability of the earth's surface.
Even in the Tertiary epoch, which immediately precedes the Adamic or human period, so far as Geology reveals, there were few or no plants yielding the appropriate supplies for the sustentation of man.
This mode of interpretation was propounded ages before the science of Geology was known, and was taught by Jewish doctors and Christian fathers for fifteen hundred years.
The aim of the Creator in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes whichgeology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals, was to introduce man upon the earth.
The science of Geology reduces all terrestrial phenomena to the great law of finite duration.
Taking a general view of the subject, we see that an investigation, as complete as possibly, of the geology of the Polar countries, so difficult of access, is a condition indispensable to a knowledge of the former history of our globe.
Professor Judd has been good enough to point out to me, that Darwin's metaphor is founded on the comparison of geology to history in Ch.
Geology proclaims a constant round of change, bringing into play, by every possible
The first fact geology proclaims is immense number of extinct forms, and new appearances.
Geology loses glory{520} from the imperfection of its archives, but it gains in the immensity of its subject.
As geology destroys geography we cannot be surprised in going far back we find Marsupials and Edentata in Europe: but geology destroys geography.
Geology apt to affect geography therefore we ought to expect to find the above.
Geology loses in its glory from the imperfection of its archives{181}, but how does it gain in the immensity of the periods of its formations and of the gaps separating these formations.
But geology tells yet no definite tale in years, her chronology being on a grander scale, and these calculations are to scientific men the weakest proofs of man's antiquity.
Another and not less important value they have, in connection with geology and paleontology, in what they tell us about the age of the human race on the earth.
The author proceeds by counties, first describing the geology of each county, and then the relics of whose existence he has been able to learn, and the localities where they were found.
You mistake my view, Onuphrio, if you imagine I am desirous of raising a system of geologyon the Book of Genesis.
Two dwelling houses, appropriated to the collections in mineralogy and geology until a suitable museum and laboratory can be constructed.
The earliest plants found by geology belong also to the lowest stage of the vegetable kingdom; they are the algæ.
Geology does show us forms of transition, and, indeed, most frequently in the lower classes of animals.
That ocean-life preponderated in this period, is beyond any doubt; while in general geology gives us more meagre information about the inhabitants of the air than of the animals of the ocean and land.
But the answer which geologygives to our questions as to the probable confirmation of the evolution theory, naturally becomes most interesting where the origin of man is treated of.
Darwinism claims for its theory immense periods of time; and geology seems to furnish them according to its demand.
And, indeed, geology gives us an answer; but it reads contradictorily: It says yes, and it says no.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
