The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Brighton, Band 2Relfe and Fletcher, 1839 |
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... 13. Corals , or skeletons of zoophytes . 14. Diversity of form and structure . 15. Geographical distribution of the polyparia . 16. The flustra , or sea - mat . 17. The vesicular corallines , or sertulariæ . 18. The gorgonia ,
... 13. Corals , or skeletons of zoophytes . 14. Diversity of form and structure . 15. Geographical distribution of the polyparia . 16. The flustra , or sea - mat . 17. The vesicular corallines , or sertulariæ . 18. The gorgonia ,
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... skeletons of large marine reptiles , for which the lias is celebrated , have principally been found in the cliffs at Lyme , Watchett , West- bury , and Whitby , where the natural sections , formed by the action of the waves , exhibit ...
... skeletons of large marine reptiles , for which the lias is celebrated , have principally been found in the cliffs at Lyme , Watchett , West- bury , and Whitby , where the natural sections , formed by the action of the waves , exhibit ...
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... skeletons , changed into brilliant pyrites . I shall defer a particular description of these relics , as well as of fossil zoophytes in general , to the lecture on corals . Crustacea , and insects of many species , have been found in ...
... skeletons , changed into brilliant pyrites . I shall defer a particular description of these relics , as well as of fossil zoophytes in general , to the lecture on corals . Crustacea , and insects of many species , have been found in ...
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... skeleton for the support of the organs of respiration . In the spiriferæ ( Tab . 91 , figs . 2 , 6 , 9 , 10 , 11 , ) there are two spiral appendages ( hence the name of the genus ) which are closely coiled , and are often , like the ...
... skeleton for the support of the organs of respiration . In the spiriferæ ( Tab . 91 , figs . 2 , 6 , 9 , 10 , 11 , ) there are two spiral appendages ( hence the name of the genus ) which are closely coiled , and are often , like the ...
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... skeleton is adapted for beings of very dissimilar forms and habits . The testudinata or turtles , like the other large reptiles , are essen- tially confined to torrid and temperate regions . The fresh - water species are capable of ...
... skeleton is adapted for beings of very dissimilar forms and habits . The testudinata or turtles , like the other large reptiles , are essen- tially confined to torrid and temperate regions . The fresh - water species are capable of ...
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abound ammonites ancient animal animalcules appear basalt beautiful beds beneath bones calcareous Cambrian carbon carboniferous system cells chalk character clay coal colour composed conglomerates coniferæ contains corals crater crinoidea crocodiles crustacea deposits Derbyshire dicotyledonous dikes encrinite epoch exhibit existence extinct feet ferns ferous fishes flint flora flustra formation fossil fresh-water genera genus geological granite grit ichthyosaurus iguanodon imbedded infusoria insects islands Isle lava layers lecture lias lime magnified marble marine marl mass megalosaurus metamorphic mica mineral mollusca mountain limestone Murchison nature nodules numerous observations occur ocean old red sandstone oolite organic remains peculiar plants Plate plesiosaurus polyparia polype present remarkable reptiles resembling saliferous sand schist secondary seen shale shells silicious Silurian Silurian System skeleton slate species specimen stems stone Stonesfield strata structure substance surface teeth tentacula tertiary thickness tion trap trees trilobites tubes vegetable veins vertebræ volcanic wealden zoophytes
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Seite 600 - ... are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.
Seite 588 - ... the mysterious curtain which shrouds it from our senses, we might there see a theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has unfolded, a universe within the compass of a point so small, as to elude all the powers of the microscope, but where the wonder-working God finds room for the exercise of all His attributes, where He can raise another mechanism of worlds, and fill and animate them all with the evidences of His glory.
Seite 587 - ... of creation which sweep immeasurably along, and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the universe. The other...
Seite 600 - ... of their primeval life ; their scaly stems, and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which began and • terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians.
Seite 545 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...
Seite 727 - Etna might enable him to point out some crevice or natural grotto on the mountain, where drift snow was still preserved. Nor were they disappointed ; for he had long suspected that a small mass of perennial ice at the foot of the highest cone was part of a larger and continuous glacier covered by a lava-current..
Seite 599 - Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface.
Seite 546 - ... salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die, in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours.
Seite 546 - ... the tide reaches every day, it is found to be full of worms of different lengths and colours, some being as fine as a thread and...
Seite 705 - Such, then, were the points where the subterranean fires obtained vent, from the earliest period to which tradition reaches back, down to the first century of the Christian era; but we then arrive at a crisis in the volcanic action of this district — one of the most interesting events witnessed by man during the brief period throughout which he has observed the physical changes on the earth's surface. From the first colonization of Southern Italy by the Greeks, Vesuvius afforded no other indications...