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169 pages of results. 461. When the Sea Flooded Britain [Journals] [SIS Review]
... upper and lower boundary dates for the church-building activity. The reason why the east coast of Scotland differs from the west (including the Hebrides and Shetlands) is that the geology to the east of the Moyne Thrust is less rigid. The western half is composed of older and harder rocks of the Torridon series whilst the eastern half is younger ... eleventh century. We therefore need to question how far the geological evidence can accommodate these contrasts and apparent contradictions.For the future, the need is clear. Historians, geologists and archaeologists must work in collaboration if the problems of the Marsh's evolution are to be solved' [92] (my parentheses and highlighting in bold). Amen ...
462. Chapter I: The Review [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... without a history" according to orthodox cosmological theories of the pre-1950's. The idea of uniformity, or the theory of uniformitarianism, states that it is possible to explain all geological features on the earth today by processes now acting on the earth. It was thought that given enough time, gradual processes could shape the earth the way it is ... . No agents external to the earth were required. A number of modern geologists realize that some features of the earth are more easily explained by random, rare, sudden events, and even natural agents external to the earth are suggested as the cause of some of these events. However, in 1950, the reasonable first approximation "possible ...
463. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... order in science, demanding even that the letter of the law be followed, all the more because their substantive ideas- erratic planets, forceful electricity in space, short geological time, etc. - - were deemed untrue. In fact, like the typical heretical group in politics or religion, they had logically to deny that the word ... discussion, the textbooks of most disciplines would have to be revised. Astronomers would have to correct their own lamentable errors, and also they would have to study electricity, geologists astronomy, anthropologists geology, historians mythology, and so on. At the same time, a number of cosmic heretics were solely Velikovsky buffs: they were incompetent and ...
464. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... be explained by the relatively modest astronomical effect alone." Do not despair, for the theory can be saved! W. Ruddiman and A. McIntyre of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in New York have postulated an oceanic feedback system (SCIENCE 212, p. 617) that explains these strong rhythms. It has been noted that when summers ... there is evidence of the "rougher" type of astronomy in some structures. Rapid Continental Drift?source: NATURE 18/6 /81, p. 571-4 Two geologists, P. de Gruyter and T. A. Vogel from Michigan State University, have looked at the origins of alkaline magmatic rocks found in the Eastern Desert of ...
465. Five Years (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... and at Rice University on the 27-29 October. In 1969 he spoke to the Jewish Center in Princeton on February 19; delivered another Cosmos and Cronos lecture at the Princeton geology department on March 11; traveled to Ocean County College on September 10; and then presented another Graduate College Forum speech in Princeton on October 21, entitled "From ... In part, by relying heavily on the prolific writings of "the last, perhaps the greatest, of Protestant opponents of evolution," (23) Seventh Day Adventist geologist George McCready Price- who read an early draft of Earth in Upheaval- Velikovsky himself invited their participation in his crusade. By 1972 the dean of Scientific Creationists, Henry M ...
466. Forum [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... my letter took issue with some off-hand remarks while no-one addressed the letter's substance, i.e ., that the evidence advanced by Earl Milton and Melvin Cook for transforming geological time into the last 10,000 years or so is flagrantly erroneous. However, I am glad that Warlow was provoked to write, for it provided an opportunity ... Core', Scientific American, (Sept. 1983), pp. 56-65. Also, a fascinating account of the controversy over what caused the Channeled Scablands and how geologists reacted to the catastrophist model is related by Stephen J. Gould in The Panda's Thumb, (1982), pp. 194-203. Finally, for the benefit of ...
... and refuge was taken under the generally held opinion that while the concept of an extreme antiquity of civilization in Egypt was the only tenable one, based on the premises of geological reasoning, the details must continue to be recognized as subject to further revision within this concept. Budge commented more than half a century ago: [Footnote: B-BEC ... period of disagreement and debate followed. The disagreement was eventually settled, even to the satisfaction of Petrie, by the entrance of M. J. de Morgan, a geologist and mining engineer, into the conflict. [Footnote: Ibid., p. 27.] At this period of doubt and uncertainty great light was thrown upon ...
468. Volcanism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... [17] We are not surprised at these statements, in view of Chapters 4 and 5 earlier on in this book, where electricity was allowed a broad scope among geological effects. The electrical volcanism of Io, satellite of Jupiter, will be recalled, where ejecta speed at 2000 miles per hour from 60 to 160 miles above the ... Today, volcanism of all kinds may be remanent. Fascinating and destructive as it may be, it is as nothing compared with the volcanism of times past. The Soviet geologist, A.P . Pavlov, declared in 1936: "At the present time, only a residual, negligible manifestation of volcanic activity is observed on the earth ...
469. Agate Spring Quarry. Ch.5 Tidal Wave (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... ," Neue Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Vol. XLIII (1907); H. Broekmann- Jerosch in Die Verdnderungen des Klimas, publ. by the XI-th International Geological Congress (1910). 3. Flint, Glacial Geologv, p. 329. ...
470. Part II: The Comet [Ragnarok] [Books]
... Cyclopaedia, article " Clay." 12. The Great Ice Age, p10. 13. Popular Science Monthly, Nov, 1881, p86. 14. Manual of Geology, p3. 15. American Cyclopaedia, article "Clay." 16. Edinburgh Review, Oct, 1874, p208. 17. Cosmos, vol. i ... ; indeed, boulders above four feet in diameter are comparatively seldom met with in the till."12 And this theory is corroborated by the fact that the eminent German geologist, Dr. Hahn, has recently discovered an entire series of organic remains in meteoric stones, of the class called chrondites, and which he identifies as belonging to ...
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