The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... fossil fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated one hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had been regarded as poorer in organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as ...
... fossil fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated one hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had been regarded as poorer in organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as ...
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... Fossil . - Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith . Belem- nite . Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil . Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with the Geology of a Country.- Geological Opportunities ...
... Fossil . - Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith . Belem- nite . Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil . Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with the Geology of a Country.- Geological Opportunities ...
Página xiv
... Fossils . — their present Place of Sepulture . - Their ancient Habitat . - Agassiz . — Amazing Progress of Fossil Ichthyology during the last few Years . - Its Nomen- clature . Learned Names repel unlearned Readers . great deal in them ...
... Fossils . — their present Place of Sepulture . - Their ancient Habitat . - Agassiz . — Amazing Progress of Fossil Ichthyology during the last few Years . - Its Nomen- clature . Learned Names repel unlearned Readers . great deal in them ...
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... Fossils of the same Order . — Microscopic Beauty of these ancient Fish . Various Styles of Ornament which obtain among them . The Molluscs of the Formation . — Remarkable chief- - - ly for the Union of modern with ancient Forms which ...
... Fossils of the same Order . — Microscopic Beauty of these ancient Fish . Various Styles of Ornament which obtain among them . The Molluscs of the Formation . — Remarkable chief- - - ly for the Union of modern with ancient Forms which ...
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... Fossils of this middle Formation than any other Locality yet discovered . Various Contemporaries of the Cephalaspis . — Vegetable Im- pressions . Gigantic Crustacean . Seraphim . Ichthyodo- rulites . - Its older Deposits of the ...
... Fossils of this middle Formation than any other Locality yet discovered . Various Contemporaries of the Cephalaspis . — Vegetable Im- pressions . Gigantic Crustacean . Seraphim . Ichthyodo- rulites . - Its older Deposits of the ...
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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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Página 1 - ... column of smoke. It rose straight as the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards, and then, on reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben...
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