The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... tion pervading all , adds interest and value to the volume . " - New York Com . Advertiser . " The publishers have again covered themselves with honor , by giving to the American public , with the Author's permission , an elegant ...
... tion pervading all , adds interest and value to the volume . " - New York Com . Advertiser . " The publishers have again covered themselves with honor , by giving to the American public , with the Author's permission , an elegant ...
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... tion of Dr. Johnson's shrewd Objection to the Theory of Soame Jenyns . Proofs of the intermediate Character of the Ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone . Appearances which ― first led the Writer to deem it intermediate . - Confirmation ...
... tion of Dr. Johnson's shrewd Objection to the Theory of Soame Jenyns . Proofs of the intermediate Character of the Ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone . Appearances which ― first led the Writer to deem it intermediate . - Confirmation ...
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... tion . The Den of Balruddery richer in the Fossils of this middle Formation than any other Locality yet discovered . Various Contemporaries of the Cephalaspis . — Vegetable Im- pressions . Gigantic Crustacean . Seraphim . Ichthyodo ...
... tion . The Den of Balruddery richer in the Fossils of this middle Formation than any other Locality yet discovered . Various Contemporaries of the Cephalaspis . — Vegetable Im- pressions . Gigantic Crustacean . Seraphim . Ichthyodo ...
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... tion . Cephalaspides . — Huge Lobster . — Habitats of the ex- isting Crustacea . - No unapt representation of the Deposit of Balruddery , furnished by a land - locked Bay in the neighbor- hood of Cromarty . - Vast Space occupied by the ...
... tion . Cephalaspides . — Huge Lobster . — Habitats of the ex- isting Crustacea . - No unapt representation of the Deposit of Balruddery , furnished by a land - locked Bay in the neighbor- hood of Cromarty . - Vast Space occupied by the ...
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... tion . My first discovered Fossil . - Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith . - Belemnite . -- Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil . -- Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with the Geology of a ...
... tion . My first discovered Fossil . - Lias Deposit on the Shores of the Moray Frith . - Belemnite . -- Result of the Experience of half a Lifetime of Toil . -- Advantages of a Wandering Profession in Connection with the Geology of a ...
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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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