The Origin Of Mountain Ranges Considered Experimentally Structurally Dynamically And In Relation To Their Geological History

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Excerpt from The Origin of Mountain Ranges Considered Experimentally, Structurally, Dynamically, and in Relation to Their Geological History Tar Origin of mountain-ranges is a problem that has the crust of the Earth has been systematically studied. Standing this, I know of no work in the English language devoted entirely to a consideration of this important subject, or containing what may be considered a systematic theory of mountain-building. The line of geological thought in this country has hitherto run more in stratigraphical than dynamical grooves. The American geologists, forced into contact with the stupendous mechanical problems presented by the geology of their continent and great mountain ranges, have devoted considerable practical attention to dynamical geology. Still, scattered through the works of the great masters of geology who have flourished in our own country are to be found the germs of most true geological reasoning, dynamical and otherwise. An attempt such as mine to provide a systematic treatise will probably be considered an ambitious one. Whether the theory here presented to the geological world be the true one or not will hardly be determined by such a consideration. The true test, as of everything geological, is time; and if it be found that the views here set forthbest explain the manifold aspects of Nature, and otherwise meet the conditions of the problem, the ideas will live; if not, they may still survive as partial truths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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