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IV.—On a Method of Determining a Lower Limit to the Age of the Stratified Rocks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The following is an attempt to determine a lower limit to the time required for the accumulation of the stratified rocks. It is not supposed to be an accurate estimate, for the data on which it is based are confessedly imperfect; but it is thought that the method employed may be of some little use when more exact determinations can be made of the physical constants involved.
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page 348 note 1 The rate of subsidence at any time is here measured with respect to the level of the sea at that time.
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