The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... passing uneasiness occa- sioned by a few gloomy anticipations , the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the com- mon lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods a reader of curious books when I could ...
... passing uneasiness occa- sioned by a few gloomy anticipations , the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the com- mon lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods a reader of curious books when I could ...
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... next morning as any of my brother - workmen . There had been a smart frost during the night , and the rime lay white on the grass as we passed onwards through the fields ; but the sun rose in a clear atmosphere 1 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
... next morning as any of my brother - workmen . There had been a smart frost during the night , and the rime lay white on the grass as we passed onwards through the fields ; but the sun rose in a clear atmosphere 1 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
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... passed on from ledge to ledge , like the traveller of the tale through the city of statues , and at length found one of the supposed aerolites I had come in quest of , firmly imbedded in a mass of shale . But I had skill enough to ...
... passed on from ledge to ledge , like the traveller of the tale through the city of statues , and at length found one of the supposed aerolites I had come in quest of , firmly imbedded in a mass of shale . But I had skill enough to ...
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... - shores a climber among rocks a laborer in quarries . My profession was a wandering one . I remember passing direct , on one occasion , from the wild western coast - of Ross - shire , where the Old Red Sandstone THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 11.
... - shores a climber among rocks a laborer in quarries . My profession was a wandering one . I remember passing direct , on one occasion , from the wild western coast - of Ross - shire , where the Old Red Sandstone THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 11.
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... passing downwards into chocolate- red and green sandstone and marl . - " 2d . Cornstone and marl , ( red and green argillaceous spotted marls , with irregular courses of impure concretionary limestone , provin- cially called Cornstone ...
... passing downwards into chocolate- red and green sandstone and marl . - " 2d . Cornstone and marl , ( red and green argillaceous spotted marls , with irregular courses of impure concretionary limestone , provin- cially called Cornstone ...
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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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