 | D. Mackintosh - 1869 - 466 pages
...certain distant points of view their * In speaking of the above escarpments, Sir RI Murchison says : ' The grandest exhibitions of the old red sandstone...mountains of South Wales — the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthen, the one 2,860, the other 2,590 feet above the sea ... In no other tract of the world visited... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1871 - 656 pages
...Tritons — on the same leaf. t, I. Detached ova. The grandest exhibitions, says Sir R. Murchison, of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountains and in the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthen, the one 2,862, and the other 2,590 feet above the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1871 - 726 pages
...resembling those of large tions, says Sir R. Murchi6,!>i.aDetacehedoyJritons~on "* same lcaf' son,of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountains and in the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthen, the one 2862, and the other 2590 feet above the... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1874 - 338 pages
...north of Merthyr, Sir Roderick Murchison estimates to be 8,000 to 10,000 feet thick; and he writes, "the grandest exhibitions of the old red sandstone...of the loftiest mountains of South Wales, the Fans «jf Brecon and Caermarthen, the one 2860, the other 2590 feet above the sea. In no other tract of... | |
 | William Jerome Harrison - Geology - 1878 - 168 pages
...special to each being observed near the point of junction. In Siluria^ Sir R. Murchison tells us that ' the grandest exhibitions of the Old Red Sandstone...Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountain in HereD fordshire, and in those of the loftiest mountains of South Wales, the Fans of Brecon and Carmarthen... | |
 | William Jerome Harrison - Geology - 1882 - 406 pages
...is of this spot that Sir RI Murchison writes in ''Siluria:" — "The grandest exhibitions, however, of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appear...escarpments of the Black Mountain of Herefordshire. ... In no other tract of the world visited by me have I seen such a mass of red rocks (estimated at... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 pages
...grandest exhibition," says Sir B. Murchison, "of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appears in the escarpments of the Black Mountain of Herefordshire,...mountains of South Wales, — the Fans of Brecon, and Carmarthen— the one 2860, and the other 2590 feet above the »ea. In no other tract of the world... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1885 - 704 pages
...which species of the same genus, Pterygot-us, occur. The grandest exhibitions, says Sir R. Murchison, of the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpFig. 607. Old Red Sandstone Shale of Forfarshire. With impression of plants and ora of Crustaceans.... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1890 - 460 pages
...subject should make an early inspection, for the lines of demarcation are fast becoming obliterated. The grandest exhibitions of the Old Red Sandstone...Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountain, near Hay, and in the Vans of Brecon and Carmarthen, the loftiest mountains of South Wales, the one... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1896 - 670 pages
...Sandstone of Southern Britain. — The grandest exhibitions, says Sir B. Murchiaon, of the Old Bed Sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountains and in the Vans of Brecon and Caermarthen, the one 2,862, and the other 2,590 feet above... | |
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In no other tract of the world visited by me have I seen such a mass of red rocks (estimated at a thickness of not less than 10,000 feet) so clearly intercalated between the Silurian and the Carboniferous strata. 