... an elevated ridge, more than a mile in length and rising more than forty feet, covered by a confused assemblage of broken strata and immense blocks of rock, invested with seaweed and corallines, and scattered over with shells and starfish, and other... The book of the Axe - Page 473by George Philip R. Pulman - 1854Full view - About this book
| Geology - 1840 - 458 pages
...shingle of the shore by their state of unnatural condensation, to burst upwards in a line parallel to the coast ; thus an elevated ridge, more than a mile...the new reef, in such a manner as nearly to resemble the Cqbb at Lyme ; which, however, it exceeds in size. The singularity and picturesque effect of the... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 pages
...unnatural condensation, to burst upwards in a line parallel to the coast,—thus an elevated ridge, G, more than a mile in length, and rising more than forty...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs." * Cornwall. — Near Penzance in Cornwall, there is a projecting tongue of land, called the " Green,"... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 514 pages
...line parallel to the coast, — thus an elevated ridge, G, more than a mile in length, and rising.more than forty feet, covered by a confused assemblage...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs." * Cornwall. — Near Penzance in Cornwall, there is a projecting tongue of land, called the "Green,"... | |
| Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 612 pages
...by their state of unnatural condensation, to burst upwards in a line parallel to the coast, so that an elevated ridge, more than a mile in length and...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs.' Landslips caused by the falling in of cavern roofs are nowhere more common than in the cretaceous strata,... | |
| Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 570 pages
...to the coast, so that an elevated ridge, more than a mile in length and rising more than forty feet5 covered by a confused assemblage of broken strata...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs/ Landslips caused by the falling in of cavern roofs are nowhere more common than in the cretaceous strata,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Evolution - 1872 - 712 pages
...covered by a confused assemblage of broken strata, and immense blocks of rock, invested with sea- weed and corallines, and scattered over with shells and...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs.' * A full account of this remarkable landslip, with a plan, sections, and many fine illustrative drawings,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...covered by a confused assemblage of broken strata, and immense blocks of rock, invested with sea- weed and corallines, and scattered over with shells and...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs.' * A full account of this remarkable landslip, with a plan, sections, and many fine illustrative drawings,... | |
| Alfred John Jukes-Browne - Geology - 1884 - 546 pages
...long, upraised ridge, covered with large blocks of rock, which, at the time of the occurrence, were invested with seaweed and corallines, and scattered over with shells and star-fish. " Far larger instances of ancient landslips, of which no record is known, and which took place, perhaps,... | |
| Georg Hartwig - Earthquakes - 1887 - 166 pages
...by their state of unnatural condensation, to burst upwards in a line parallel to the coast, so that an elevated ridge, more than a mile in length and...extended reef in front of the present range of cliffs." Landslips caused by the falling in of cavern roofs are nowhere more common than in the cretaceous strata,... | |
| Henry Woodward - Geology - 1895 - 638 pages
...and more recent strata along the shore. Hence blocks of very various age became mingled together, " invested with seaweed and corallines, and scattered over with shells and star-fish," 3 representing the existing fauna. Mr. Mellard Reade* has elaborated a combined terrestrial and drift-ice... | |
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