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13
. Ibid., 154.
14
. See figure 1.5. SEQ BNRef \* MERGEFORMAT
15
. S. Haughton,
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16
. Ibid., 102.
17
. S. Haughton, “Physical Geology: A Geological Proof That the Changes of Climate in Past
Times Were Not Due to Changes in the Position of the Pole; with an Attempt to Assign a Minor
Limit to the Duration of Geological Time,”
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18
. Ibid., 266.
19
. J. D. Burchfield,
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
(Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1990), 102.
20
. For a thorough discussion of Walcott's method, see G. B. Dalrymple,
The Age of the
Earth
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991).
21
. C. D. Walcott, “Geologic Time, as Indicated by the Sedimentary Rocks of North Amer-
ica,”
Journal of Geology
1, no. 7 (1893).
22
. Ibid., 675-676.
23
. G. H. Darwin, “On the Influence of Geological Changes on the Earth's Axis of Rotation,”
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24
. G. H. Darwin, “On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and on the Remote History of
the Earth,”
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25
. Ibid., 531.
26
. G. H. Darwin,
The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System: The Substance of
Lectures Delivered in 1897 at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
(London: J. Murray,
1898), 286-287.
27
. Burchfield,
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
, 43.
28
. J. L. Powell,
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(New York: Pi; London:
Pearson Education, 2005), 147.
29
. C. King, “The Age of the Earth,”
American Journal of Science
145 (1893): 15.
30
. Ibid., 20.
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1
. A. Geikie,
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. Ibid., 12.
3
. P. Tait, “Geological Time,”
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4
. Geikie,
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, 20.
5
. J. Croll,
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6
. P. C. England, P. Molnar, and F. M. Richter, “Kelvin, Perry, and the Age of the Earth,”
American Scientist
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7
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron,
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368.
8
. Reported in J. Perry, “On the Age of the Earth,”
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