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ZOOLOaiCAL RESEARCH 



^Fonndcd 1905 as " Tbe Joaroal of EcobobiIc Biology'') 

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WALTER E. COLLINGE, 



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 Rcsi-arcl' ".'" '" the University of Si Andrews 



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 reseaich in s}-stematic and structunil zoolog\ 



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The University of Chicago Press 



THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH 



By 



THOMAS CHKOWDER CHAMBERLIN 



Head of tbe Dopartnient of Geology in tho Onirersity of Chicago 



(Fourth volame in tlie University of Chioago Science Series) 



rtus book, by one of the leading geologists of the \rorld, sets fotth the disclosures 

 that led to the rejection, one sfter another, of the older views of the origin of our planet, 

 the futile stterupts then made to emend these or to build otliers upon the same foundations, 

 the fir 1 of all these, and the construction of a radically new view based on a 



uew c mdatiou. The later chapters of the book tre«t of the early stages of 



the e.in:. iu-.vi a the iray in which its loadi:' --" ■- • ^^k their et«:t from their cos- 



mojonio auteccdoQts. these being held to b. in the genesis of the planet. 



The b<vinnins of the inqviiry is' set forth ir. ;^u: the successive chapters 



arc entrUed: "^'Tiie G;iseous Theory of F^irth-Gcuesiis ju the Ij^ht of tlie Kinetic Theory 

 of O.-ise*"; "Veiitices of Co5iiu->2v>Tiic Stste? R»id their Sisii'hoanoe"; "The Decisive 

 !- -uonv of Certain V ; - t .... , „>^^^„, "The Forbidden 



: :•."; '"DvcamicE: 'on of theSolat Nehub 



into the Planetary Svsu:i! ; . m- ,mi. ^^j.n o...,j.. :j. m. ...v i..,>.,."; "Inner KeorganirA- 

 tion of tie Juvenile" Earth'": "Higher Organiiation in tie Great O)nt*ot Horiions." 



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