The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... stone . It is from the vaults to which ancient life has been consigned that the history of the dawn of life is to be composed . " - North British Review . " Scientific knowledge equally remarkable for comprehensiveness and accuracy ; a ...
... stone . It is from the vaults to which ancient life has been consigned that the history of the dawn of life is to be composed . " - North British Review . " Scientific knowledge equally remarkable for comprehensiveness and accuracy ; a ...
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... stone ' placed himself , by that production , which was first , among the most successful geologists , and the best writers of the age . We well remember with what mingled emotion and delight we first read that work . Rarely has a more ...
... stone ' placed himself , by that production , which was first , among the most successful geologists , and the best writers of the age . We well remember with what mingled emotion and delight we first read that work . Rarely has a more ...
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... stone would be found at least equal to those of all the geo- logical formations united , at the death of Cuvier , was already more than fulfilled . Cuvier enumerated ninety - two species of fossil fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated ...
... stone would be found at least equal to those of all the geo- logical formations united , at the death of Cuvier , was already more than fulfilled . Cuvier enumerated ninety - two species of fossil fishes ; Agassiz , in 1846 , enumerated ...
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... Stones . - Inferences derived from their water - worn Appearance . Sea - coast Section . - My first discovered Fossil ... Stone - Mason . --Design of the present Work . - - - - PAGE · 1-14 CHAPTER II . The Old Red Sandstone . - - Till ...
... Stones . - Inferences derived from their water - worn Appearance . Sea - coast Section . - My first discovered Fossil ... Stone - Mason . --Design of the present Work . - - - - PAGE · 1-14 CHAPTER II . The Old Red Sandstone . - - Till ...
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... stone . Peculiarities of the Third Group . — Its Varieties . Description of the Cheiracanthus . Of two unnamed Fossils of the same Order . — Microscopic Beauty of these ancient Fish . Various Styles of Ornament which obtain among them ...
... stone . Peculiarities of the Third Group . — Its Varieties . Description of the Cheiracanthus . Of two unnamed Fossils of the same Order . — Microscopic Beauty of these ancient Fish . Various Styles of Ornament which obtain among them ...
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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...
Página 211 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
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