Geological Magazine, Том 6Henry Woodward Cambridge University Press, 1869 |
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... whole being certainly borne at the termination of a branch . This forms the whole female organ , and exhibits a great analogy to the fruit of Taxineæ , -to that of Dacrydium for example , which is in the same way borne on a terminal ...
... whole being certainly borne at the termination of a branch . This forms the whole female organ , and exhibits a great analogy to the fruit of Taxineæ , -to that of Dacrydium for example , which is in the same way borne on a terminal ...
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... whole Peninsula , being only 16 or 17 feet above the sea - level , is formed of the same species of coral , that species being still at work in forming the outermost reef , between which and the Island of Cuba the Gulf Stream flows ...
... whole Peninsula , being only 16 or 17 feet above the sea - level , is formed of the same species of coral , that species being still at work in forming the outermost reef , between which and the Island of Cuba the Gulf Stream flows ...
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... whole structure was of Post - glacial age . If the former was the case , it would seem probable that there might be some indication of it , either in a change of species , or in some more or less marked break in the structure of the ...
... whole structure was of Post - glacial age . If the former was the case , it would seem probable that there might be some indication of it , either in a change of species , or in some more or less marked break in the structure of the ...
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... whole subsidence in the Pacific area to be not less than 6000 feet , and adds , " It is probable that this sinking began in the Post - tertiary period . " Now , since it seems likely that the general rate of subsidence cannot be much ...
... whole subsidence in the Pacific area to be not less than 6000 feet , and adds , " It is probable that this sinking began in the Post - tertiary period . " Now , since it seems likely that the general rate of subsidence cannot be much ...
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... whole class is singularly detailed in the Thesaurus , which clearly suggests the want of research in given regions . Thus : Only one form ( Edrioaster ) is known in 99 Nova Scotia . Sardinia . Crinoid ( Mariacrinus ) is known in India ...
... whole class is singularly detailed in the Thesaurus , which clearly suggests the want of research in given regions . Thus : Only one form ( Edrioaster ) is known in 99 Nova Scotia . Sardinia . Crinoid ( Mariacrinus ) is known in India ...
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Ammonites appear Belaugh Belemnites bones Boulder-clay breccia British Carboniferous Chalk character Chillesford clay coal cone containing Crag Cretaceous denudation deposits described diphya district drift England eruption evidence exhibited existence fauna feet felspathic fissures flint formation fossils Gault genera genus Geol GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE Geological Society Geological Survey geologists Glacial gneiss granite gravel Green Slates Greensand heat hills Hyperodapedon inches Inferior Oolite land lava Lias limestone Lower marine marl mass Mastodon matter miles mineral Miocene Museum nature nearly Neocomien Norwich observations occur Old Red Sandstone origin paper plates Porphyries portion present probably Prof Professor R. I. Murchison Red Sandstone referred remains remarked ridge river rocks sand schists seen shales shells side Silurian Skiddaw Slates soil species specimens sporangia strata structure surface teeth thickness tion tooth trachytic trap Trogontherium valley volcanic zone
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Стр. 564 - Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. MONTAGUE RHO[)ES JAMES, MA, Litt.D., Fellow and Dean of King's College, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Rev. CHW JOHNS, MA, Queens
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Стр. 286 - Wallbridge. in reply, stated that the roek must have come at the least twenty miles from its original home. The surface of the Trenton limestone rock in the neighbourhood was striated in the direction of the boulder. There was no evidence of intrusion. The mass was traversed in two or three places by crevices. 2. "On the distribution of Flint Implements in the Drift, -with reference to some recent discoveries in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Стр. 98 - He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1870, and in 1878 was created a CMG through the recommendation of Sir John Glover, then Governor of Newfoundland.
Стр. 479 - Uniformitarianism, to deny that the rapidity of the rotation of the earth may be diminishing, that the sun may be waxing dim, or that the earth itself may be cooling. Most of us, I suspect, are Gallios, " who care for none of these things...
Стр. 564 - Hypsilophodon, from the character of its teeth, probably subsisted on hard vegetable food. He expressed a hope that Mr. Fox would allow a closer examination of his specimens to be made. He was unable to agree with Mr. Seeley's views. He was inclined to think that the progress of knowledge tended rather to break down the lines of demarcation between groups supposed to be distinct than to authorize the creation of fresh divisions.
Стр. 253 - ... strata will thus become crystallized by heat, and may eventually, with their included water, be raised to the melting point, by which process gases would be generated, and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions follow. At the same time the mechanical disturbance of the equilibrium of pressure, consequent upon a transfer of sediments, while the yielding surface reposes on matters partly liquified, will explain the movements of elevation and subsidence of the earth's crust Herschel was probably ignorant...
Стр. 63 - England, had given a clear statement of the results of his own original observations, and had declared that none of the human bones or stone implements met with by him in any of the caverns could be considered to be as old as the mammoth and other extinct quadrupeds. Opinions in harmony with this conclusion continued until very lately to be generally in vogue in England ; although about the time that Schmerling was exploring the Liege caves, the Rev. Mr. M'Enery...