"Absolute value" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... volcanic eruption have fallen seven miles from the base of the cone. Assuming that the masses went straight upward at the beginning of their ascent, and that they were afterward borne outwardly by the expansion of the column, computations which have a general but no absolute value appear to indicate that the masses attained a height of from thirty to fifty miles, and had an initial velocity which, if doubled, might have carried them ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler |
