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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... ridge of the island ; it has the Tees as its natural limit on the north , the Dun for a great length on the south , and on the east is washed by the German ocean . Its area is divided into several obvious sections , distinguished alike ...
... ridge of the island ; it has the Tees as its natural limit on the north , the Dun for a great length on the south , and on the east is washed by the German ocean . Its area is divided into several obvious sections , distinguished alike ...
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... ridges are still very lofty which pass by Wainstones , about thirteen hundred feet , and Carlton Bank , round the head of Scugdale , and by Osmotherly moors , to sink beneath the highest point of the next hilly district , at Hambleton ...
... ridges are still very lofty which pass by Wainstones , about thirteen hundred feet , and Carlton Bank , round the head of Scugdale , and by Osmotherly moors , to sink beneath the highest point of the next hilly district , at Hambleton ...
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... ridges , is prolonged to the edge of the sea cliffs about Filey ; on the west , its waters pass , by a narrow valley of denudation , through the oolitic hills which extend from Castle Howard to Malton and Langton wold . Were this narrow ...
... ridges , is prolonged to the edge of the sea cliffs about Filey ; on the west , its waters pass , by a narrow valley of denudation , through the oolitic hills which extend from Castle Howard to Malton and Langton wold . Were this narrow ...
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... ridges sloping to the south , but precipitous toward the north , have had their surfaces exposed to the ravages of water , is evident by inspecting the cliff above Filey brig . For here the diluvial clay , rising to the height of one ...
... ridges sloping to the south , but precipitous toward the north , have had their surfaces exposed to the ravages of water , is evident by inspecting the cliff above Filey brig . For here the diluvial clay , rising to the height of one ...
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... ridge of Stow brow ; and the superior elevation of Boulby is accompanied by an accumulation of the sandstone rocks at the top . There is no example from the Peak to Saltburn , where any sandstone higher than the cap rock appears in the ...
... ridge of Stow brow ; and the superior elevation of Boulby is accompanied by an accumulation of the sandstone rocks at the top . There is no example from the Peak to Saltburn , where any sandstone higher than the cap rock appears in the ...
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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...