 | 1857 - 666 pages
...Take then a mass of partially consolidated mud. Assuredly such a mass is divided and subdivided by surfaces along which the cohesion is comparatively...resistance;! the little nodules become converted into laminae, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and the infallible result will be... | |
 | 1857 - 664 pages
...Take then a mass of partially consolidated mud. Assuredly such a mass is divided and subdivided by surfaces along which the cohesion is comparatively...mass yields and spreads out in the direction of least rcsistance;t the little nodules become converted into laminae, separated from each other by surfaces... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...exist in the texture of substances of all kinds. Under pressure the mass yields and spreads out, and the little nodules become converted into lamina?,...from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and thus the mass becomes cleavable. The air cavities or fissures also spread out thin under the pressure,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1861 - 494 pages
...Take then a mass of partially consolidated mud. Assuredly such a mass is divided and subdivided by surfaces along which the cohesion is comparatively...resistance;* the little nodules become converted into laminie, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and thu infallible result will be... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1875 - 470 pages
...irregular polyhedra bounded by surfaces of weak cohesion. Imagine such a mass subjected to pressure — it yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance ; " the little 1 1 have usually softened the wax by warming it, kneaded it with the fingers, and pressed it between... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 482 pages
...irregular polyhedra bounded by surfaces of weak cohesion. Imagine such a mass subjected to pressure, — it yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance ; * the little polyhedra become converted into laminoe, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1911 - 750 pages
...subjected to pressure, such masses yield and spread out in the direction of least resistance, small nodules, become converted into lamina) separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and the result is that the mass cleaves at right angles to the line in which the pressure is exerted. In reply... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1911 - 336 pages
...irregular polyhedra bounded by surfaces of weak cohesion. Imagine such a mass subjected to pressure, — it yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance; the little polyhedra become converted into laminae, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858 - 600 pages
...Take then a mass of partially consolidated mud. Assuredly such a mass is divided and subdivided by surfaces along which the cohesion is comparatively...Figure to your mind's eye such a mass subjected to pressure,—the mass yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance ;* the little nodules... | |
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Figure to your mind's eye such a mass subjected to pressure — the mass yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance;! the little nodules become converted into laminae, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and the infallible... 