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IV.—On Accumulation and Denudation, and their Influence in Causing Oscillation of the Earth’s Crust

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles Ricketts
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No fact in Physical Geology is more frequently recorded than a simultaneous occurrence of subsidence of the earth’s crust where deposition of sedimentary strata has been in progress. Reference is often made to the fact that the basement beds of different sedimentary formations were deposited in shallow water, and to the indications presented by subsequent deposits that they were accumulated in a sea of moderate depth. On them immense accumulations may have been deposited in successive strata, amounting even to miles in thickness; showing that with the deposition there has been a corresponding depression of the original surface. Though these phenomena are so inseparable in their occurrence and so well known, English geologists, until the last few months, have made little, it may even be said no endeavour, to determine whether they should be associated as cause and effect. This has not been the case with American geologists.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 7 , July 1883 , pp. 302 - 306
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