The Building of the British Isles: A Study in Geographical EvolutionG. Bell, 1888 - 343 pages |
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... marine deposits , and it is only rarely that actual proof of the former existence of land in any district is found in the intercalation of purely freshwater deposits . Occasionally we meet with estuarine beds which indicate the close ...
... marine deposits , and it is only rarely that actual proof of the former existence of land in any district is found in the intercalation of purely freshwater deposits . Occasionally we meet with estuarine beds which indicate the close ...
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... marine origin are always shallow - water deposits and are seldom found in deeper water than fifty or sixty fathoms , except where the bottom slopes very steeply from the coast ; neither do they gene- rally occur at a greater distance ...
... marine origin are always shallow - water deposits and are seldom found in deeper water than fifty or sixty fathoms , except where the bottom slopes very steeply from the coast ; neither do they gene- rally occur at a greater distance ...
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... marine sediments ; he points to the great amount of volcanic activity which is testified by the intrusive and eruptive rocks of the Welsh , Shropshire , and Charnwood districts , and he suggests that even some of the hornblendic and ...
... marine sediments ; he points to the great amount of volcanic activity which is testified by the intrusive and eruptive rocks of the Welsh , Shropshire , and Charnwood districts , and he suggests that even some of the hornblendic and ...
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... marine species , the waters of the Cambrian sea may not have been salt ; and we have no proof that these creatures had been differen- tiated into salt- and fresh - water forms until we reach the close of the Devonian period . Dr. Hicks ...
... marine species , the waters of the Cambrian sea may not have been salt ; and we have no proof that these creatures had been differen- tiated into salt- and fresh - water forms until we reach the close of the Devonian period . Dr. Hicks ...
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... marine coast- action , and at last there was probably but little of the old terrestrial volcano left above the level of the sea . " As the waters gradually crept over the site of the volcanic distur- bances the calcareous sediment which ...
... marine coast- action , and at last there was probably but little of the old terrestrial volcano left above the level of the sea . " As the waters gradually crept over the site of the volcanic distur- bances the calcareous sediment which ...
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