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VIII.—Observations on Mr. Robert Mallet's Paper on Volcanic Energy in the Philosophical Transactions for 1873, page 147
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2018
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While giving ample credit to Mr. R. Mallet for the ingenuity displayed in his novel suggestion as to the cause of volcanic energy (or Vulcanicity, as he calls it), and for the elaborate experiments and calculations which he brings to its support, Geologists have some reason to complain of the supercilious tone in which he notices, only to throw them aside as unworthy of notice, the theories of all preceding writers on the same subject, who have expressed views differing from that which he adopts. It is needless to give instances of this tone which pervades the whole paper, and must strike every one who reads it.
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1 Geol. Mag. Vol. X. No. 7, 07, 1873.Google Scholar
2 See Geol. Mag. 07, 1873, and 03, 1870Google Scholar; also “Volcanoes,” ed. 1862, p. 308, and Mr. Woodward, H.'s Presidential Address to the Geological Association for 1873.Google Scholar
1 Such rents may be compared to those produced along the edges of a sheet of ice on a pond or river, from which the water beneath has been lowered in level; or still more closely to those lateral rents formed in a sheet of lava as its interior subsides on cooling, or escapes laterally, of which the Almanayia in Iceland is a typical example. See “Volcanoes,” ed. 1862, p. 77.