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... globe ? Is it not reasonable to suppose that, in the slow and continuous process of contraction, very great masses of gases became retained or occulted by the cooling matter, and that these occulted gases have been the essential agents in balancing...

On the Gaseous Products of the Krakatoa Eruption, and Those of Great ... - Page 14
by Joseph Patrick O'Reilly - 1886 - 14 pages
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The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, Volume 5

Royal Dublin Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1887 - 738 pages

...gases have been the essential agents in balancing tensions in the continually contracting sphere ? — that this continuous contraction led to the pressure...the existence and action of gases in the interior and at the surface thereof ? Thus, from the very earliest period, we are called upon to recognize the...

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