Excerpt from The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Vol. 2
Introductory remarks. Classification of rocks into Stratified and Unstratified. Geological data for the correctness of these two great divisions. Evidences in favour of the Dynamical Theory, deducible from the unstratified rocks. Nucleii and centres of mountain chains generally composed of amorphous masses. Their prevalence on the Earth's surface. Geological attestations in support of this. Axis of elevation observable in mountain ranges, and the conical form which their eminences have assumed. Argument, founded on the stratified rocks, to show, that the mineral crust of the Earth has been moved, in mass, from where it was formed. Firstly. Strata deposited horizontally at the bottom of water. Geological evidences to this effect. Secondly. That they have been elevated from the position in which they were deposited, proved by numerous evidences. Concluding observations arising from the establishing of these several assumptions.
Having, at length, entered within the more immediate domain of Geology, we shall be enabled to call in its powerful aid, to assist us in demonstrating the validity of those assumptions, which we have endeavoured to sustain in the preceding part of this work, and more especially in the last section.
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