 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...lead Mr. Mallet to the conclusion that the true definition of an earthquake is, the transit of a wave of elastic compression in any direction from vertically...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth from any center of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1851 - 752 pages
...impression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound waves, dependent upon the impulse, and upon the circumstances of position as to sea... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1851 - 888 pages
...materially modified.t Mr. Mallet infers that an earthquake " is the transit of a wave of elastic impression in any direction. from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may * Sir Charles Lyell... | |
 | Geology - 1860 - 512 pages
...impression in any direction from verticality upward to horizontality in any azimuth through the crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be attended with tidal and sound waves dependent upon the impulse and upon the circumstances of position HS to sea and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...lead Mr. Mallet to the conclusion that the true definition of an earthquake is, the transit of a wave of elastic compression in any direction from vertically...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth from any center of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 460 pages
...every reason to consider it established that an earthquake is simply "the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through ike crust and surface of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - Marine meteorology - 1862 - 322 pages
...Mallett says : — " There is every reason to believe that an earthquake is simply the transit of a wave of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one, and which may be... | |
 | English literature - 1863 - 556 pages
...elastic compression in any direction to horizontality, in any azimuth, through the surface and crust of the earth, from any centre of impulse or from more than one, which may be attended with tidal and sound waves, dependent upon the impulse, and upon cireumstances... | |
 | Science - 1864 - 848 pages
...compression in any direction, from vertically upwards to horizontatty in any azimuth, through the substance and surface of the Earth, from any centre of impulse,...upon circumstances of position as to sea and land. To understand the definition we must have a clear notion of what a wave is. We will return to that... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1864 - 876 pages
...Humboldt, is, in fact, to say nothing. What, then, i« an Earthquake ? It is the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction, from vertically...upwards to horizontally in any azimuth, through the substance and surface of the Earth, from any centre of impulse, or from more than one ; and which may... | |
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the transit of a wave or waves of elastic compression in any direction from vertically upwards to horizontally, in any azimuth, through the crust and surface of the earth, from any centre of impulse or from more than one, and which may be attended with... 
