The Texan Permian and Its Mesozoic Types of Fossils

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 51 páginas

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Página 268 - Report of the progress of the Geological Survey of the State of Virginia for the year 1840.
Página 63 - NOTE. — In addition to the evidence heretofore possessed regarding the position of the shales containing the Trilobites, I have the testimony of Sir WE Logan, that the shales of this locality are in the upper part of the Hudson River group, or forming a part of a series of strata which he is inclined to rank as a distinct group, above the Hudson River proper. It would be quite superfluous for me to add one word in support of the opinion of the...
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Página 98 - A reprint of the annual reports and other papers on the geology of the Virginias.
Página 97 - These markings are of a flattened, cylindrical form, from ith to -,'jth of an inch broad, giving the surface of the fractured rock a ribbed appearance, and resembling perforations made in sand which have been subsequently filled up, without destroying the distinctness of the original impression.
Página 364 - He here advanced the idea that the enumeration of the mineral constituents of rocks could never be satisfactorily applied for the determination of the relative position of strata, but that recourse must be had to the organic remains. " We find the same organized remains associated with equivalent strata in every part of the earth...
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Página 169 - ... siliceous sandstone. In many places, this most ancient of the fossiliferous rocks of New York (the Potsdam sandstone) is divided into laminae by the remains of innumerable shells of the genus Lingula. They are in such profusion as to form black seams like mica, for which they were at first mistaken.* With the Lingula occurs another small placunoid shell, allied to, if not identical, according to Professor E.
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