Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate
CHAPTER XXII.
A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE MEAN THICKNESS OF THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE GLOBE.
Prevailing Methods defective.—Maximum Thickness of British Rocks.—Three Elements in the Question.—Professor Huxley on the Rate of Deposition.—Thickness of Sedimentary Rocks enormously over-estimated.—Observed Thickness no Measure of mean Thickness.—Deposition of Sediment principally along Sea-margin.—Mistaken Inference regarding the Absence of a Formation.—Immense Antiquity of existing Oceans 360