The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... organisms which , though among the most an- cient of things in their relation to the world's history , will be pronounced new by the geological reader in their relation to human knowledge . Hence , too , my present opportunity of ...
... organisms which , though among the most an- cient of things in their relation to the world's history , will be pronounced new by the geological reader in their relation to human knowledge . Hence , too , my present opportunity of ...
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... less reference to familiar phenomena . And had I written for only general readers , my descriptions of hitherto undescribed organisms , and the deposits of little- known localities , would have occupied fewer pages , and.
... less reference to familiar phenomena . And had I written for only general readers , my descriptions of hitherto undescribed organisms , and the deposits of little- known localities , would have occupied fewer pages , and.
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... the system to which the organisms of Balruddery and Carmylie belong , the representative of the Cornstones in England . Some matters there given as merely conjectural were also replaced by ascertained facts . In the latter , he.
... the system to which the organisms of Balruddery and Carmylie belong , the representative of the Cornstones in England . Some matters there given as merely conjectural were also replaced by ascertained facts . In the latter , he.
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... organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as determined and arranged by Professor Agassiz . Many additions in the shape of notes were also made . In the first two editions it was stated that there was a ...
... organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as determined and arranged by Professor Agassiz . Many additions in the shape of notes were also made . In the first two editions it was stated that there was a ...
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... Organisms of the Lower Old Red Sandstone . — The Pterichthys . -- Its first Dis- covery . by that of Agassiz . — Description . The several Varieties of the Fossil yet discovered . - Evidence of violent Death in the Attitudes in which ...
... Organisms of the Lower Old Red Sandstone . — The Pterichthys . -- Its first Dis- covery . by that of Agassiz . — Description . The several Varieties of the Fossil yet discovered . - Evidence of violent Death in the Attitudes in which ...
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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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