Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - Всего страниц: 281 |
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... IV . UPHEAVAL , SUBSIDENCE , AND Denudation CHAPTER V. THE ORGANICALLY FORMED ROCKS ... CHAPTER VI . THE GLACIAL PERIODS ... : : : ... PAGE 3 : : ... 22 22 : 37 61 84 105 PART II . PALEONTOLOGY . THE PALEOZOIC ERA . THE.
... IV . UPHEAVAL , SUBSIDENCE , AND Denudation CHAPTER V. THE ORGANICALLY FORMED ROCKS ... CHAPTER VI . THE GLACIAL PERIODS ... : : : ... PAGE 3 : : ... 22 22 : 37 61 84 105 PART II . PALEONTOLOGY . THE PALEOZOIC ERA . THE.
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... organic proof . Chalk ( one of the Secondary rocks ) is composed of ( chiefly ) carbonate of lime , mainly derived from the dead and fossil bodies of small shell - fish called foramini- fera , from the number of chambers in their shells ...
... organic proof . Chalk ( one of the Secondary rocks ) is composed of ( chiefly ) carbonate of lime , mainly derived from the dead and fossil bodies of small shell - fish called foramini- fera , from the number of chambers in their shells ...
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... organic or " life - formed " rocks . They are called stratified , from the Latin word stratum , spread out ; and they are usually capable of being split in certain directions . This is the " line of cleavage , " and slate , sandstone ...
... organic or " life - formed " rocks . They are called stratified , from the Latin word stratum , spread out ; and they are usually capable of being split in certain directions . This is the " line of cleavage , " and slate , sandstone ...
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... organic rocks have been raised into mountain chains , that there has been a long succes- sion of forms of life appearing and disappearing through cycles of time whose vastness we cannot fully compre- hend . Thousands of years must be as ...
... organic rocks have been raised into mountain chains , that there has been a long succes- sion of forms of life appearing and disappearing through cycles of time whose vastness we cannot fully compre- hend . Thousands of years must be as ...
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... be more fully detailed in the chapter on the " organic rocks . " In many parts of the Pacific Ocean far from land the depth is over 18,000 feet ; in the Atlantic , frequently 12,000 feet . These are submarine valleys , and 48 GEOLOGY .
... be more fully detailed in the chapter on the " organic rocks . " In many parts of the Pacific Ocean far from land the depth is over 18,000 feet ; in the Atlantic , frequently 12,000 feet . These are submarine valleys , and 48 GEOLOGY .
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abundant accumulations America Ammonites animals appear Arctic beds birds bones carbon Carboniferous chalk character Cheaper Edition chemical clay climate cloth coal corals creatures Cretaceous crustacea Deinotherium Demy 8vo deposits Devonian earth Eocene Europe evidence existing extinct Fcap feet fishes Foraminifera forest formation forms fossil Frontispiece genera genus geological Glacial glacier granite Greenland heat hippopotamus human hyæna Illustrations immense islands Jurassic land Large crown 8vo Large post 8vo lime limestone living lower mammoth marine marsupials mass mastodon Meiocene MESOZOIC miles mountain North Northern numerous ocean Oolitic organic origin PALEOZOIC period Permian physical plants Pleiocene Pleistocene Poems Portrait present probably Professor pterodactyl regions remains represented reptiles river sandstones Second Edition shells sigillaria Silurian similar skeleton Small crown 8vo species stone strata stratified rocks structure surface teeth terrestrial TERTIARY thick Third Edition tion Translated Triassic Trilobites unstratified valley vast vegetation volcanic vols
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