The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain: A Manual of British GeologyE. Stanford, 1878 - 639 pàgines |
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The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain: A Manual of British Geology Andrew Crombie Ramsay Visualització completa - 1878 |
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Ammonites Bagshot basin Belemnites bones Boulder-clay British broad Cambrian Carboniferous Limestone caves Chalk chiefly cliffs coal-field Coal-measures coast conglomerates consist contain corals Crag Cretaceous Cretaceous strata denudation deposited east England Eocene Eocene strata escarpment estuary fauna feet thick flint formations formed fossils fresh-water Gault genera geological Glacial epoch glacier gneiss granite gravel grits ground Highlands hills Inferior Oolite interstratified islands Isle of Wight Kimeridge Clay lakes Lammermuir land London Clay Lower Greensand Lower Lias Lower Silurian marine masses miles Miocene moraine mountains neighbourhood North Wales numerous occur Old Red Sandstone Oolitic strata overlying Oxford Clay Palæozoic partly Pecten Permian physical geography plain Purbeck Reading beds Red Marl region river roches moutonnées sands Scotland sediments shales shells Silurian Silurian rocks slates slopes species stones strata surface unconformably Upper Greensand valley volcanic Weald Clay Wealden whole Woolwich and Reading Yorkshire
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Pàgina 589 - This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width...
Pàgina 475 - human remains and works of art, such as arrow-heads and knives of flint, occur in all parts of the cave and throughout the entire thickness of the clay : and no distinction founded on condition, distribution, or relative position, can be observed, whereby the human can be separated from the •other reliquiae," which included bones of the "elephant, rhinoceros, ox, deer, horse, bear, hyaena, and a feline animal of large size.
Pàgina iv - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Pàgina 260 - Dcemonorops) twined its snake-like form. In the shade of the forest throve numerous ferns, one species of which (Pecopteris lignitum) seems to have formed trees of imposing grandeur...
Pàgina 544 - ... answer which I give to all these queries is simply this — the palaeolithic deposits are of pre-glacial and inter-glacial age, and do not, in any part, belong to post-glacial times. They are either entirely wanting or very sparingly represented in the midland and northern counties, in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, because all those regions have again and again been subjected to the grinding action of land-ice, and the destructive influence of the sea. But in those districts which were never...