The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... existing Creation . - Inference . the Holoptychius . - Probable origin of its Siliceous Limestone . – Marked increase in the Bulk of the Existences of the Sys- - Conjectural Cause .. The Coal Measures . - The Lime- tem . - - stone of ...
... existing Creation . - Inference . the Holoptychius . - Probable origin of its Siliceous Limestone . – Marked increase in the Bulk of the Existences of the Sys- - Conjectural Cause .. The Coal Measures . - The Lime- tem . - - stone of ...
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... existing causes on the northern shore of the Moray Frith . ( See pages 197 and 198. ) The figures and letters which mark the various beds correspond with those of fig . 5 , and of the following section . The " fish - bed , " No. 1 ...
... existing causes on the northern shore of the Moray Frith . ( See pages 197 and 198. ) The figures and letters which mark the various beds correspond with those of fig . 5 , and of the following section . The " fish - bed , " No. 1 ...
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... WELL . " The greatest of these interesting works yet existing in Aberdeen has just been successfully completed at the tape - works of Messrs . breaches towards the south ; but it stretches , almost THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 19.
... WELL . " The greatest of these interesting works yet existing in Aberdeen has just been successfully completed at the tape - works of Messrs . breaches towards the south ; but it stretches , almost THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 19.
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... not equally , as in existing fish , on each side the central vertebral column , but chiefly on the lower side the column sending out its - - diminished vertebræ to the extreme termination of the fin . 30 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
... not equally , as in existing fish , on each side the central vertebral column , but chiefly on the lower side the column sending out its - - diminished vertebræ to the extreme termination of the fin . 30 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
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... existing links at both ends to which the broken links should have pieced , -in short , all those more striking peculiarities of the exist- - ing disparted families which we find united in the inter- 56 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
... existing links at both ends to which the broken links should have pieced , -in short , all those more striking peculiarities of the exist- - ing disparted families which we find united in the inter- 56 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
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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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