The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... head . * All that I * As these paddle - shaped arms have not been introduced by Agas- siz into his restoration of the Coccosteus , their existence , at least as arms , must still be regarded as problematical . There can be no doubt ...
... head . * All that I * As these paddle - shaped arms have not been introduced by Agas- siz into his restoration of the Coccosteus , their existence , at least as arms , must still be regarded as problematical . There can be no doubt ...
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... head . Society , however , is in a state of continual flux : some in the upper classes are from time to time going down , and some of you from time to time mounting up to take their places — always the more steady and intelligent among ...
... head . Society , however , is in a state of continual flux : some in the upper classes are from time to time going down , and some of you from time to time mounting up to take their places — always the more steady and intelligent among ...
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... heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of sovereign efficacy in curing bewitched cattle . Our employer , on quitting the ...
... heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of sovereign efficacy in curing bewitched cattle . Our employer , on quitting the ...
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... head , and which has often been mistaken for that of a trilobite of the division Asaphus . A gigantic species of fish , of the genus Holoptychius , has also been found by Dr. Fleming in the Old Red Sandstone of Fifeshire . " . Lyell's ...
... head , and which has often been mistaken for that of a trilobite of the division Asaphus . A gigantic species of fish , of the genus Holoptychius , has also been found by Dr. Fleming in the Old Red Sandstone of Fifeshire . " . Lyell's ...
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... head , its extreme northern corner , is exhibited in a vertical section not more than three hundred yards in extent . And yet so enormous is the depth of the deposit in Caithness , that it has been deemed by a very supe- rior geologist ...
... head , its extreme northern corner , is exhibited in a vertical section not more than three hundred yards in extent . And yet so enormous is the depth of the deposit in Caithness , that it has been deemed by a very supe- rior geologist ...
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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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