RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The great craters appear choked up with matter proceeding from small craters on dikes. CUL-DAR40.33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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The great craters appear choked up with matter proceeding from small craters on dikes, yet when summit blown off must be conical mass filled with liquid lava)
First act of forming crater is a partial soulèrement of the softened beds of lava, at first horizontal.
La grande quantite de fels volatilisés e d' acides libres tenus" &c (which are constantly disengaging themselves from liquid lava.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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