Sketch-book of Popular GeologyNimmo, 1876 - 356 páginas |
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... Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects enclosed in it - The Structural Geology of Scotland - Its Trap Rock - The Scenery usually associated with the Trap Rock - How formed ...
... Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects enclosed in it - The Structural Geology of Scotland - Its Trap Rock - The Scenery usually associated with the Trap Rock - How formed ...
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... Vegetable Organisms - The Caithness Flagstones : how formed - The Fauna of the Old Red Sandstone - The Pterichthys of the Upper or Newest Formation -The Cephalaspis of the Lower Formation - The Middle Formation the most abundant in ...
... Vegetable Organisms - The Caithness Flagstones : how formed - The Fauna of the Old Red Sandstone - The Pterichthys of the Upper or Newest Formation -The Cephalaspis of the Lower Formation - The Middle Formation the most abundant in ...
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... vegetable mould , of stratified gravels and sand , blent with the decayed shells of mollusca that died more than twenty centuries since , the other formed of exactly the same sort of lines of stratified sand and gravel , - continued ...
... vegetable mould , of stratified gravels and sand , blent with the decayed shells of mollusca that died more than twenty centuries since , the other formed of exactly the same sort of lines of stratified sand and gravel , - continued ...
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... vegetable mould , of stratified gravels and sand , blent with the decayed shells of mollusca that died more than twenty centuries since , the other formed of exactly the same sort of lines of stratified sand and gravel , -- and strewed ...
... vegetable mould , of stratified gravels and sand , blent with the decayed shells of mollusca that died more than twenty centuries since , the other formed of exactly the same sort of lines of stratified sand and gravel , -- and strewed ...
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... vegetable mould . There is as thorough an identity between them as between two contiguous steps of a stair , covered , the one by a patch of brown , and the other by a patch of green , in the pattern of the stair - carpet . There are ...
... vegetable mould . There is as thorough an identity between them as between two contiguous steps of a stair , covered , the one by a patch of brown , and the other by a patch of green , in the pattern of the stair - carpet . There are ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Arthur Seat beach beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains Crag Crag and Tail creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish débris deposits depth district earth elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacial glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred icebergs island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves