{"id":138334,"date":"2014-05-01T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/?p=138334"},"modified":"2014-03-24T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:24:44","slug":"la-erosion-atmosferica-en-el-parrafo-quingentesimo-vigesimo-octavo-de-el-origen-de-las-especies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/2014\/05\/01\/138334","title":{"rendered":"La erosi\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica en el p\u00e1rrafo quingent\u00e9simo vig\u00e9simo octavo de El Origen de las Especies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Este p\u00e1rrafo queda sin comentar. En realidad debi\u00f3 quedar sin publicar pues el contenido nada tiene que ver con el origen de las especies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>528<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We have, however, recently learned from the observations of Ramsay, in the van of many excellent observers\u2014of Jukes, Geikie, Croll and others, that subaerial degradation is a much more important agency than coast-action, or the power of the waves. The whole surface of the land is exposed to the chemical action of the air and of the rainwater, with its dissolved carbonic acid, and in colder countries to frost; the disintegrated matter is carried down even gentle slopes during heavy rain, and to a greater extent than might be supposed, especially in arid districts, by the wind; it is then transported by the streams and rivers, which, when rapid deepen their channels, and triturate the fragments. On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope. Messrs. Ramsay and Whitaker have shown, and the observation is a most striking one, that the great lines of escarpment in the Wealden district and those ranging across England, which formerly were looked at as ancient sea-coasts, cannot have been thus formed, for each line is composed of one and the same formation, while our sea-cliffs are everywhere formed by the intersection of various formations. This being the case, we are compelled to admit that the escarpments owe their origin in chief part to the rocks of which they are composed, having resisted subaerial denudation better than the surrounding surface; this surface consequently has been gradually lowered, with the lines of harder rock left projecting. Nothing impresses the mind with the vast duration of time, according to our ideas of time, more forcibly than the conviction thus gained that subaerial agencies, which apparently have so little power, and which seem to work so slowly, have produced great results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sin embargo, recientemente, las observaciones de Ramsay, a la cabeza de muchos excelentes observadores -de Jukes, Geikie, Croll y otros-, nos han ense\u00f1ado que la erosi\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica es un agente mucho m\u00e1s importante que la acci\u00f3n costera, o sea la acci\u00f3n de las olas. Toda la superficie de la tierra est\u00e1 expuesta a la acci\u00f3n qu\u00edmica del aire y del agua de lluvia, con su \u00e1cido carb\u00f3nico disuelto, y, en los pa\u00edses fr\u00edos, a las heladas; la materia desagregada es arrastrada, aun por los declives suaves, durante las lluvias fuertes y, m\u00e1s de lo que podr\u00eda suponerse, por el viento, especialmente en los pa\u00edses \u00e1ridos; entonces es transportada por las corrientes y r\u00edos, que, cuando son r\u00e1pidos, ahondan sus cauces y trituran los fragmentos. En un d\u00eda de lluvia vemos, aun en una comarca ligeramente ondulada, los efectos de la erosi\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica en los arroyuelos fangosos que bajan por todas las cuestas. M\u00edster Ramsay y m\u00edster Whitaker han demostrado -y la observaci\u00f3n es notabil\u00edsima- que las grandes l\u00edneas de escarpas del distrito we\u00e1ldico y las que se extienden a trav\u00e9s de Inglaterra, que en otro tiempo fueron consideradas como antiguas costas, no pueden haberse formado, de este modo, pues cada l\u00ednea est\u00e1 constituida por una sola formaci\u00f3n, mientras que nuestros acantilados marinos, en todas partes, est\u00e1n formados por la intersecci\u00f3n de diferentes formaciones. Siendo esto as\u00ed, nos vemos forzados a admitir que las l\u00edneas de escarpas deben su origen, en gran parte, a que las rocas de que est\u00e1n compuestas han resistido la denudaci\u00f3n atmosf\u00e9rica mejor que las superficies vecinas; estas superficies, por consiguiente, han sido gradualmente rebajadas, quedando salientes las l\u00edneas de roca m\u00e1s dura. Nada produce en la imaginaci\u00f3n una impresi\u00f3n m\u00e1s en\u00e9rgica de la inmensa duraci\u00f3n del tiempo -seg\u00fan nuestras ideas de tiempo- como la convicci\u00f3n, de este modo conseguida, de que han producido grandes resultados los agentes atmosf\u00e9ricos, que aparentemente tienen tan poca fuerza y que parecen trabajar con tanta lentitud.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lectura aconsejada:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.csic.es\/handle\/10261\/76630\"> Manual para detectar la impostura cient\u00edfica: Examen del libro de Darwin por Flourens.<\/a> Digital CSIC, 2013. 225 p\u00e1ginas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Este p\u00e1rrafo queda sin comentar. En realidad debi\u00f3 quedar sin publicar pues el contenido nada tiene que ver con el origen de las especies. &nbsp; \u00a0 528 We have, however, recently learned from the observations of Ramsay, in the van of many excellent observers\u2014of Jukes, Geikie, Croll and others, that subaerial degradation is a much more important agency than coast-action, or the power of the waves. The whole surface of the land is exposed to the chemical action of the air and of the rainwater, with its dissolved carbonic acid, and in colder countries to frost; the disintegrated matter is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[467,22606],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138372,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138334\/revisions\/138372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}