Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, Or, A Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast: Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections, and Plates of the Fossil Plants and AnimalsAuthor, 1829 - 192 páginas |
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Página xii
... considerable accuracy , but the lower beds are erroneously named , owing to the anomalous character of the strata , which in this district represent the oolites of Bath . The error , however , was quickly discovered by Mr. Smith , and ...
... considerable accuracy , but the lower beds are erroneously named , owing to the anomalous character of the strata , which in this district represent the oolites of Bath . The error , however , was quickly discovered by Mr. Smith , and ...
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... considerable extent , the great features of the earth's surface are determined by peculiarities in its in- ternal construction . Its highest ranges of mountains are composed of one set of rocks , but its widely extended plains are based ...
... considerable extent , the great features of the earth's surface are determined by peculiarities in its in- ternal construction . Its highest ranges of mountains are composed of one set of rocks , but its widely extended plains are based ...
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... its sources , and the nature of the country through which it flows , the effects are more or less considerable . But they every where tend to the same E result ; the raising of the level of the valley PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY . 25.
... its sources , and the nature of the country through which it flows , the effects are more or less considerable . But they every where tend to the same E result ; the raising of the level of the valley PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY . 25.
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... considerable than those oc- casioned by the slow and continued action of water . It is along moun- tain chains , and among mountain groups , that the melted rocks of the interior of the earth are poured forth upon its surface . How deep ...
... considerable than those oc- casioned by the slow and continued action of water . It is along moun- tain chains , and among mountain groups , that the melted rocks of the interior of the earth are poured forth upon its surface . How deep ...
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... considerable space into the low plains lying to the west of those hills . It is exposed by denudation along a great part of the valley of the Esk , and in many of its tributary branches , as well as in the deep hollows of Bilsdale , F 2 ...
... considerable space into the low plains lying to the west of those hills . It is exposed by denudation along a great part of the valley of the Esk , and in many of its tributary branches , as well as in the deep hollows of Bilsdale , F 2 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aldstone moor ammonites appears argillaceous Bath oolite beds Blue wick Bolland Brandsby calcareous grit chalk chert cliffs Cloughton coal Conch coralline oolite cornbrash Craven fault dale deposits depressed Derbyshire diluvial dislocation district Ditto dyke east elevation fell Flagstone formation fossils geological grauwacke Greenhow Greenhow hill Gristhorpe gritstone hill hundred feet inferior oolite Ingleborough ironstone Kelloways rock Kirby Lonsdale laminated layers lias shale lime limestone limestone series lower limestone lower scar limestone main limestone Malton marlstone mass mesial millstone grit mountain limestone Nidderdale Northumberland organic remains Oxford clay pebbles Penyghent Plate red sandstone remarkable Ribblesdale ridge Robin Hood's Bay sandstone Scarborough septa Sheffield shells side slate species specimens Speeton clay stone strata striæ striated summit surface Swaledale Teesdale thickness underset undulated upper vale valley veins Wensleydale Wharfedale Whernside Whin sill Whitby whorls Yoredale series Yorkshire
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Página 19 - The excavation of vallies can be ascribed to no other cause than a great flood of water which overtopped the hills, from whose summits those vallies descend.
Página xvi - Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Página 50 - The alterations in the form of land, occasioned by diluvial agency, must have been considerable, but are not yet well understood; the operation of natural causes since that period deserves to be maturely considered, for these have materially changed the face of the globe. The lakes which were left, on the retiring of the diluvial currents, appear to have been continually diminished in depth, and contracted in extent, by deposits of vegetable matter, decayed shells, and sediment brought into them...
Página 117 - the interesting remains of Spongiae are nowhere so well developed as in England, and perhaps nowhere in England, so well as in Yorkshire. On the shore near Bridlington, they lie exposed in the cliffs and scars, and being seldom enclosed in flint, allow their organization to be studied with the greatest advantage.
Página 46 - Yorkshire, is composed of a base of clay, containing fragments of pre-existing rocks, varying in roundness and size. The rocks from which the fragments appear to have been transported are found, some in Norway...
Página 154 - in the midland counties, the Fuller's earth rock of Mr. Smith does by no means furnish a constant or wellmarked line of distinction between the middle (great or Bath) oolite and the inferior oolite ; and I am decidedly of opinion, that in the northern part of Northamptonshire, and throughout Rutland and Lincolnshire, there is but one thick oolitic rock beneath the cornbrash, resting upon brown sandstone, which immediately covers the upper lias shale.
Página xi - Explorations of three of the fine mountains which are visible from Florence Court gave us a complete section of the limestone series in Ireland, and while the forms of Ben Jochlin, Kulkeagh, and Belmore, seemed copied from Penyghent, Wildboar Fell, Water Crag, their constituent rocks were found closely analogous.
Página 18 - No one can doubt that great alterations were occasioned in the features of the earth's surface, at the period of the deluge, who considers the extensive tracts formed of the diluvial detritus. All the solid land of Holderness is an accumulation of this kind, from the ruins of others parts of England and Scotland and perhaps Norway.
Página 95 - ... feet above the vale of the Eden and the plain of Carlisle, and the level beds of the red sandstone deposited in later times at the foot of the ancient escarpment, upon the relatively depressed portion of the same mountain limestone series.
Página 151 - Sternberg. and mountain limestone" — in other words, is associated with the more ancient carboniferous deposits. " A cursory observer," adds Mr. Phillips, " may, perhaps, be led to confound together the ferns and calamites of the coal district with the ferns and equiseta of the oolitic rocks : though to a botanical eye their difference is very apparent : but who can mistake the lepidodendra of the former, the cycadiform fronds of the middle period, and the dicotyledonous leaves and fruits which...