Consistentior status
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Consistentior status is the initial date of all geological history. According to Lord Kelvin the term was coined by Leibniz in his theory of earth.[1]
References
- â W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1864 (Read 1862)). On the Secular Cooling of the Earth 167â169. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved on June 14, 2015. âThe chief object of the present communication is to estimate from the known general increase of temperature in the earth downwards, the date of the first establishment of that consistentior status, which, according to Leibnitzâs theory, is the initial date of all geological history. ...11. ...That is to say, I conclude that Leibnitzâs epoch of emergence of the consistentior status was probably between those dates.â