III. Niagara falls as a chronometer of geological time

J. W. Spencer
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1. Conjectures as to the Age of Niagara Falls.—Prior to the writing of the present paper, most of the conjectures as to the age of the Falls have been based simply upon the supposed uniform rate of recession. Thus, in 1790, Andrew Ellicott assigned 55,000 years as the age of the Falls.
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3尼亚加拉瀑布是地质年代的计时器
1. 关于尼亚加拉大瀑布时代的猜想。在撰写本文之前,大多数关于瀑布年龄的猜测都是基于假定的统一衰退率。因此,在1790年,安德鲁·埃利科特将瀑布的年龄定为55000年。
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