Transactions Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh Volume 6

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...all rocks from loose marine deposites. The sand would thus be changed to sandstone; the shells to limestone; and the animal and vegetable substances to coal. Other beds, consisting of a mixture of various substances, would be still more affected by the same heat. Such as contained iron, carbonate of lime, and alkali, together with a mixture of various earths, would enter into thin fusion, and, penetrating through every crevice that occurred, would, in some cases, reach what was then the surface of the earth, and constitute lava: in other cases, it would congeal in the internal rents, and constitute porphyry, basalt, greenstone, or any other of that numerous class of substances, which we comprehend under the name of whinjlone. At the same time, beds of similar quality, hut of composition somewhat less fusible, would enter into a state of viscidity, such as many bodies pass through in their progress towards fusion. In this state, the particles, though far from possessing the same freedom as in a liquid, are susceptible of crystalline arrangement; and the substance This state of viscidity, with its numberless modifications, is deserving of great attention, since it affords a solution of some os the most important geological questions. The mechanical power exerted by some substances, in the act of sjfijiaanig a crystalline form, _is well known. I have seen a set of large and broad, .. crystals substance, which, in this sluggish state, would be little disposed to move, being confined in its original situation by contiguous beds of more refractory matter, would crystallize, without undergoing any change of place, and conslitute one of those beds of whinstone, which frequently occur interitratified with sandslone and limestone. In other cases.

List of fellows in v. 1-5, 7-16, 20-30, 32-33, 35-41, 45; continued since 1908 in the Proceedings, v. 28-

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