The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... fish , are unequivocally marine . - - With the exception of two of the figures in Plate IX . , the figures of the Cephalaspis and the Holoptychius , and one of the sections in the Frontispiece , section 2 , all the prints of the volume ...
... fish , are unequivocally marine . - - With the exception of two of the figures in Plate IX . , the figures of the Cephalaspis and the Holoptychius , and one of the sections in the Frontispiece , section 2 , all the prints of the volume ...
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... fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated one hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had ... fish found any where , has been discovered in its lowest formation ; whereby he was convinced that the theory of a ...
... fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated one hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had ... fish found any where , has been discovered in its lowest formation ; whereby he was convinced that the theory of a ...
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... Old Red . - Description . Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . - Habits of the Coccosteus . - Scarcely any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize , - 35-54 CHAPTER IV . PAGE The Elfin - fish of Gawin Xiv CONTENTS .
... Old Red . - Description . Gradations from Crustacea to Fishes . - Habits of the Coccosteus . - Scarcely any Conception too extravagant for Nature to realize , - 35-54 CHAPTER IV . PAGE The Elfin - fish of Gawin Xiv CONTENTS .
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... fish of Gawin Douglas . - The Fish of the Old Red nous . ― ― Sandstone scarcely less curious . Place which they occu- pied indicated in the present Creation by a mere Gap . - Fish divided into two great Series , the Osseous and ...
... fish of Gawin Douglas . - The Fish of the Old Red nous . ― ― Sandstone scarcely less curious . Place which they occu- pied indicated in the present Creation by a mere Gap . - Fish divided into two great Series , the Osseous and ...
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... Analogy between the History of Fishes as Individuals and as a Class . - Chemistry of the Lower For- mation . - Principles on which the Fish - enclosing Nodules PAGE were probably formed . Chemical Effect of Animal Matter CONTENTS . xix.
... Analogy between the History of Fishes as Individuals and as a Class . - Chemistry of the Lower For- mation . - Principles on which the Fish - enclosing Nodules PAGE were probably formed . Chemical Effect of Animal Matter CONTENTS . xix.
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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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