The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... developed in Cromarty , where , though the fossils are identical with those of the more north- ern localities , at least one of the deposits , f , is mineralogically differ- ent - alternating beds of sandstone and clay , these.
... developed in Cromarty , where , though the fossils are identical with those of the more north- ern localities , at least one of the deposits , f , is mineralogically differ- ent - alternating beds of sandstone and clay , these.
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... clay , these last enclosing limestone nodules , taking the place of the bituminous schists . SECTION II . The Old Red System of England and Wales , as given in the general Section of Mr. Murchison , with the Silurian Rocks beneath and ...
... clay , these last enclosing limestone nodules , taking the place of the bituminous schists . SECTION II . The Old Red System of England and Wales , as given in the general Section of Mr. Murchison , with the Silurian Rocks beneath and ...
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... clay , which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet , and which at this time was rent and shivered , wherever it pre- sented an open front to the weather , by a recent frost . A heap of loose fragments , which ...
... clay , which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet , and which at this time was rent and shivered , wherever it pre- sented an open front to the weather , by a recent frost . A heap of loose fragments , which ...
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... clays , and its nodular limestones . We dis- cover the still little known but highly interesting fossils of the Old Red Sandstone in one deposition ; we find the beautifully preserved shells and lignites of the Lias in another . There ...
... clays , and its nodular limestones . We dis- cover the still little known but highly interesting fossils of the Old Red Sandstone in one deposition ; we find the beautifully preserved shells and lignites of the Lias in another . There ...
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... Clay and the Coral Rag . We may explore , in a third locality , beds identical in their organisms with the Wealden of Sussex . In a fourth we find the flints and fossils of the Chalk . The lower part of the scale is also well nigh com ...
... Clay and the Coral Rag . We may explore , in a third locality , beds identical in their organisms with the Wealden of Sussex . In a fourth we find the flints and fossils of the Chalk . The lower part of the scale is also well nigh com ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery beautiful body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Christian Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge enamelled entire exhibited existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inch interest jaws Lias limestone lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercles vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column volume writer
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