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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 49–57)
Summary:

Satisfied that CD finds his conjectured rate of elevation and long periods of stasis reasonable, even if these periods cannot be estimated. Explaining upheaval by subterranean lava flow makes these pauses plausible. Suspects that mountainous areas move more than lowland and coastal areas. General upheavals or subsidence in Europe in glacial period are unlikely. Believes with Jamieson that there was glacial action in Scotland before its submergence and that it was equally mountainous then. Subterranean upheaval visits different countries by turn. Horizontal Silurian strata must have been submerged and upheaved. Rest has always been the general surface character. Believes, however, that the quantity of late Tertiary movement is against CD’s belief in the constancy of continents and oceans: perhaps since the Miocene period, but not since the Cretaceous.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
30 November 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
30 November 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/326, f.141
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Guthrie Tait
Date:
30 November 1860
Source of text:
EUL MS Gen 2169, f.52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
Date:
30 November 1860
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Sammlung Nebauer, Gelehrte
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project