The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... occur in the Lower Formation of the system , in a quarry near Kirkwald , in which the specimen figured , with several others of the same kind , was found by Mr. Robertson , in the year 1834. In referring to this shell , page 99 , * I ...
... occur in the Lower Formation of the system , in a quarry near Kirkwald , in which the specimen figured , with several others of the same kind , was found by Mr. Robertson , in the year 1834. In referring to this shell , page 99 , * I ...
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... occurred in the earlier formations of the crust of the earth , belonging to those inconceivably remote ages when living things first appeared ; a work so scientific , and yet so illustrated with familiar objects and scenes , as to be ...
... occurred in the earlier formations of the crust of the earth , belonging to those inconceivably remote ages when living things first appeared ; a work so scientific , and yet so illustrated with familiar objects and scenes , as to be ...
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... Vegetables . - Importance and Interest of the Record which it furnishes , 79-94 CHAPTER VI . The Lines of the Geographer rarely right Lines . These last , however , always worth looking at when they occur.— - CONTENTS . XV.
... Vegetables . - Importance and Interest of the Record which it furnishes , 79-94 CHAPTER VI . The Lines of the Geographer rarely right Lines . These last , however , always worth looking at when they occur.— - CONTENTS . XV.
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... occur.— - Strik- ing Instance in the Line of the Great Caledonian Val- ley . - Indicative of the Direction in which the Volcanic Agencies have operated . - Sections of the Old Red Sand- stone furnished by the granitic Eminences of the ...
... occur.— - Strik- ing Instance in the Line of the Great Caledonian Val- ley . - Indicative of the Direction in which the Volcanic Agencies have operated . - Sections of the Old Red Sand- stone furnished by the granitic Eminences of the ...
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... occurs a vast gap in the scale . The Lias leans unconformably against the Old Red Sand- stone ; there is no Mountain Limestone , no Coal Measures , none of the New Red Marls or Sandstones , Under or Upper . There are at least three ...
... occurs a vast gap in the scale . The Lias leans unconformably against the Old Red Sand- stone ; there is no Mountain Limestone , no Coal Measures , none of the New Red Marls or Sandstones , Under or Upper . There are at least three ...
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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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