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There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet.

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

The physiological role of carbonic acid, its geognostic influence, and its relations to most ordinary meteorological phenomena on the earth's surface -- all these contribute to give special weight to studies concerned in the estimation of the normal quantity of carbonic acid in the air.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

It is, at best, speculation run mad, and is based on no other assumption than that of the inherent imperfectibility of the universe as it came from the hand of God, or from the dynamic play of molecules extending throughout vast geognostic epochs.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

These subjects were further illustrated by his geognostic map, and his _Catalogo ragionato di una raccolta di rocce, disposto con ordine geografico, per servire alla geognosia dell 'Italia_ (Milan, 1817).

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

In a word, Humboldt says the climatic distribution of heat depends on the relative distribution of land and sea, and on the "hypsometrical configuration of the continents"; and he urges that "great meteorological phenomena cannot be comprehended when considered independently of geognostic relations" -- a truth which, like most other general principles, seems simple enough once it is pointed out.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

I believe I was the first who attempted to represent, in geognostic profile, the configuration of Mexico, and the Cordilleras of South

Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 George S. Boutwell 1861

* Beyond the town of Villa de Cura and the Cerro de Chacao the aspect of the country presents greater geognostic variety.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

This geognostic phenomenon was to me the more unexpected since there exists nowhere in the world so smooth a plain entirely granitic.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Cumana, Carthagena, and the Great Land of Guadaloupe, noticed in my geognostic table of South America.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

A curious geognostic discovery remains to be made in the eastern part of America, that of finding in a primitive soil a rock of euphotide containing the piedra de Macagua.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851