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IN this work (Leipzig, 1873) there is a speculation (on p. 162) that in early geological times the carbonic anhydride, while yet free on the surface of the earth, was sufficient in quantity to exert a pressure of 356 atmospheres. If this had been the condition of things at any time when the surface temperature was below the critical temperature (30°.9 C.), it follows that abundant liquid carbonic anhydride flowed over the surface of the earth, or floated upon the seas; unless it be supposed, which is not probable, that this quantity could be held in solution in the water. Other very important and interesting effects are also involved. The statement of the 356 atmospheres has been quoted without question by so high an authority as Dr. Irving in his “Metamorphism of Rocks.”
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JOLY, J. Pfaff's “Allgemeine Geologie als Exacte Wissenschaft”. Nature 45, 126 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045126b0
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