The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... say more regarding it than that it is however , that they existed as plates of very peculiar form , and greatly resembling paddles , and that they served in the economy of the animal some still unaccounted for purpose . * Page 90 of the ...
... say more regarding it than that it is however , that they existed as plates of very peculiar form , and greatly resembling paddles , and that they served in the economy of the animal some still unaccounted for purpose . * Page 90 of the ...
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... says a Scottish geologist , in a digest of some recent geological discoveries , which appeared a short time ago in an Edinburgh newspaper , " has been hith- erto considered as remarkably barren of fossils . " The re- mark is expressive ...
... says a Scottish geologist , in a digest of some recent geological discoveries , which appeared a short time ago in an Edinburgh newspaper , " has been hith- erto considered as remarkably barren of fossils . " The re- mark is expressive ...
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... say all they know regarding it in a very few paragraphs . Lyell , in the first edition of his admi- rable elementary work , published only two years ago , devotes more than thirty pages to his description of the Coal Measures , and but ...
... say all they know regarding it in a very few paragraphs . Lyell , in the first edition of his admi- rable elementary work , published only two years ago , devotes more than thirty pages to his description of the Coal Measures , and but ...
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... say . There are no calculations more doubtful than those of the geologist . The hill just instanced ( Morvheim ) is apparently composed from top to bottom of what in Scotland . forms the lowest member of the system -a coarse conglom ...
... say . There are no calculations more doubtful than those of the geologist . The hill just instanced ( Morvheim ) is apparently composed from top to bottom of what in Scotland . forms the lowest member of the system -a coarse conglom ...
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... Scotland . " No beds of real coal , " say these gentlemen , " have been discovered in Caithness ; and it would thus appear that the middle any where yet known , that fossiliferous portion of the 26 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
... Scotland . " No beds of real coal , " say these gentlemen , " have been discovered in Caithness ; and it would thus appear that the middle any where yet known , that fossiliferous portion of the 26 THE OLD RED SANDSTONE .
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