 | Industrial arts - 1855 - 424 pages
...have undergone no great alteration. He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqeous sediment originally composed of mud, sand, or pebbles,...But lying upon them, and therefore evolved after, other strata succeed, in which some few relics of a primeval ocean are discernible, and these again... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1855 - 424 pages
...have undergone no great alteration. He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqeous sediment originally composed of mud, sand, or pebbles,...But lying upon them, and therefore evolved after, other strata succeed, in which some few relics of a primeval ocean are discernible, and these again... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...have undergone no great alteration. He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqeous sediment originally composed of mud, sand, or pebbles,...But lying upon them, and therefore evolved after, other strata succeed, in which some few relics of a primeval ocean are discernible, and these again... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...which these rest, there is, in all countries where investigation has been made, an enormous series of sub-aqueous sediment, originally composed of mud,...or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea, derived from preexisting rocks, which has not undergone any change from heat, and in which no trace... | |
 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1861 - 490 pages
...Spirulirostra, Beloptera, Ifelemnosis. PROVINCE IV.— VERTEBIIATA. There is an enormous series of subaqueous sediment, originally composed of mud, sand,...or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea, derived from pre-existing rocks, which has not undergone any change from heat, and in which no trace... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 856 pages
...before him au enormous pile or seríes of early subaqueous sediment originally composed of шш ! gaud, or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea,...But lying upon them, and therefore evolved after, other strata succeed, in which some few relics of a primeval ocean are discernible, and these again... | |
 | Scientific Association (Meriden, Conn.) - Science - 1887 - 80 pages
...HS DAVIS, Secretary. The Catopterus gracilis. BY CHAS. HS DAVIS, MD There is an enormous series of subaqueous sediment, originally composed of mud, sand...or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea, and in which no trace of organic life has yet been detected. These non-fossiliferous sedementary beds... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 548 pages
...appeals to the book of nature, where its leaves have undergone no great alteration. He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqueous sediment,...of mud, sand, or pebbles, the successive bottoms of which have been derived from pre-existing rocks ; and in those lower beds, even where they are little... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...appeals to the book of nature, where its leaves have undergone no great alteration. He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqueous sediment,...of mud, sand, or pebbles, the successive bottoms of which have been derived from pre-existing rocks ; and in those lower beds, even where they are little... | |
 | Richard Owen - Science - 2003 - 472 pages
...Belosepia, Spirliurostra, Beloptera, Belemnosis. PROVINCE IV.— VEETEBEATA. There is an enormous series of subaqueous sediment, originally composed of mud, sand,...or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea, derived from pre-existing rocks, which has not undergone any change from heat, and in which no trace... | |
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He sees before him an enormous pile or series of early subaqeous sediment originally composed of mud, sand, or pebbles, the successive bottoms of a former sea, all of which have been derived from preexisting rocks ; and in these lower beds, even where... 