The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 21The Society, 1865 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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... mile . 396 , title of woodcut , after Margate insert on the north ; after Pegwell insert on the south ; after the scale insert 1 mile . 99 398. My attention has just been drawn to a notice of the Totternhoe stone by Dr. Fitton , who ...
... mile . 396 , title of woodcut , after Margate insert on the north ; after Pegwell insert on the south ; after the scale insert 1 mile . 99 398. My attention has just been drawn to a notice of the Totternhoe stone by Dr. Fitton , who ...
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... miles , on the west a constant succession of hills ; and then he shrewdly observes , " If the unstratified rocks in the centre are to be considered as the oldest , and if the stratified rocks have been deposited upon them , how does it ...
... miles , on the west a constant succession of hills ; and then he shrewdly observes , " If the unstratified rocks in the centre are to be considered as the oldest , and if the stratified rocks have been deposited upon them , how does it ...
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... miles in length , from Geneva to Solothurn , from S. W. to N.E. , and upwards of thirty miles in width between the Alps and the Jura . Now the greater portion of this glacier must have come down the val- ley of the Rhone by Sion ...
... miles in length , from Geneva to Solothurn , from S. W. to N.E. , and upwards of thirty miles in width between the Alps and the Jura . Now the greater portion of this glacier must have come down the val- ley of the Rhone by Sion ...
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... miles in width should have had the power of forcing onwards over an uneven bottom a mass occupying a space of upwards of 3000 square miles , and moreover of scooping out a deep basin in the solid rock to a depth of 900 feet ? Are we not ...
... miles in width should have had the power of forcing onwards over an uneven bottom a mass occupying a space of upwards of 3000 square miles , and moreover of scooping out a deep basin in the solid rock to a depth of 900 feet ? Are we not ...
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... miles , and im- pelled by some mysterious power , this vis à tergo of which we have heard so much , did really move with slow but irresistible motion over the sites of these Alpine and Swiss lakes , pressing upon the rock below with the ...
... miles , and im- pelled by some mysterious power , this vis à tergo of which we have heard so much , did really move with slow but irresistible motion over the sites of these Alpine and Swiss lakes , pressing upon the rock below with the ...
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appear beds Boulder-clay British calcareous Carboniferous character Chloritic clay coast collection containing Corals Crag Cretaceous crown crystalline d'Orb denudation deposits described Devonian diorite disks distinct district Elephant Eocene Eozoon fauna feet felspar flints Foraminifera formation fossils fragments Geol Geological Society Geological Survey geologists glacial glaciers Glauconitic gneiss gneissic granite gravel Hill hornblende Horner inches Inoceramus island Journ Lake Laurentian Lias lime limestone lower Malvern marine marls masses Mastodon metamorphic metamorphic rocks milk-molar mineral Miocene molar Murchison Museum noticed observed occur paper penultimate period Permian plates Pliocene portion posterior present probably Prof Professor pyroxene quartz R. I. Murchison Red Sandstone remains remarkable river rocks sand schists serpentine shales shells side siliceous Silurian species specimens Stegodon stone strata structure surface talon Tertiary thick tion tooth true molar tusks Upper Chalk valley White Limestone width zone
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Página 348 - WC, gives practical instruction In Mineralogy and Geology. He can also supply Elementary Collections of Minerals, Rocks, and Fossils, on the following terms :— 100 Small Specimens, In cabinet, with three trays £220...
Página 122 - Ludlow, Devonian, and Carboniferous Rocks. SECONDARY FOSSILS, from the Trias, Lias, Oolite, Wealden, and Cretaceous Groups. TERTIARY FOSSILS, from the Woolwich, Barton, and Bracklesham Beds, London Clay, Crag, &c. In the more expensive Collections some of the Specimens are rare, and all more select.
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Página 57 - Though the abundance and wide distribution of Eozoon, and the important part it seems to have acted in the accumulation of limestone, indicate that it was one of the most prevalent forms of animal existence in the seas of the Laurentian period, the non-existence of other organic beings is not implied. On the contrary, independently of the indications afforded by the lime-stones themselves, it is evident that in order to the existence and growth of these large Rhizopods, the waters must have swarmed...
Página 50 - ... rock ; and less frequently there are met with lenticular patches of sandstone or granular quartzite, of a foot in thickness and several yards in diameter, holding in abundance small disseminated leaves of graphite.
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Página 47 - But as we do not as yet know with certainty either the base or the summit of this series, these three may be conformably followed by many more. Although the Lower and Upper Laurentian rocks spread over more than 200,000 square miles in Canada, only about 1500 square miles have yet been fully and connectedly examined in any one district, and it is still impossible to say whether the numerous exposures of Laurentian limestone met with in other parts of the province are equivalent to any of the three...
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