Class-book of GeologyMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 516 páginas |
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Archibald Geikie. PART III THE STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST OF THE EARTH CHAPTER XII SEDIMENTARY ROCKS - THEIR ORIGINAL STRUCTURES PAGE 171 CHAPTER XIII SEDIMENTARY ROCKS . - -STRUCTURES SUPERINDUCED IN THEM AFTER THEIR FORMATION 185 CHAPTER ...
Archibald Geikie. PART III THE STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST OF THE EARTH CHAPTER XII SEDIMENTARY ROCKS - THEIR ORIGINAL STRUCTURES PAGE 171 CHAPTER XIII SEDIMENTARY ROCKS . - -STRUCTURES SUPERINDUCED IN THEM AFTER THEIR FORMATION 185 CHAPTER ...
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... sedimentary rocks · 87. Section of overlap 88. Unconformability 89. Joints in a stratified rock 90. Dip and Strike . 91. Clinometer 92. Dip , Strike , and Outcrop 93. Inclined strata shown to be parts of curves 94. Curved strata ...
... sedimentary rocks · 87. Section of overlap 88. Unconformability 89. Joints in a stratified rock 90. Dip and Strike . 91. Clinometer 92. Dip , Strike , and Outcrop 93. Inclined strata shown to be parts of curves 94. Curved strata ...
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... sedimentary accumulations , and is best developed where currents have been most active in transporting and assorting the materials ( p . 172 ) . It is the feature that first catches the eye in any river - bank , where a section of the ...
... sedimentary accumulations , and is best developed where currents have been most active in transporting and assorting the materials ( p . 172 ) . It is the feature that first catches the eye in any river - bank , where a section of the ...
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... sediments which it covers . Cast - iron bars , for example , have been found to be so corroded by sea - water as to lose nearly half their strength in fifty years . Doubtless many minerals and rocks are liable to similar attacks . But ...
... sediments which it covers . Cast - iron bars , for example , have been found to be so corroded by sea - water as to lose nearly half their strength in fifty years . Doubtless many minerals and rocks are liable to similar attacks . But ...
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... sediments now enumerated , the bottom of the sea receives abundant accumulations of the remains of shells , corals , foraminifera and other marine creatures ; but these will be described in the next chapter , where an account is given ...
... sediments now enumerated , the bottom of the sea receives abundant accumulations of the remains of shells , corals , foraminifera and other marine creatures ; but these will be described in the next chapter , where an account is given ...
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abundant accumulated acid Ammonites ancient Assistant Master beds BOOK bottom Brachiopods calcareous calcite Cambrian Cambridge carbonate of lime Carboniferous Chapter chiefly clay College containing corals Cretaceous crinoids crystalline crystals decay deposits detritus Devonian earth earth's crust Edited ELEMENTARY Eocene eruptive Europe evidence example extinct fauna Fcap feet fissures fossils genera GEOGRAPHY geological history glacier globe gradually granite gravel GREEK ground Illustrated Jurassic kinds known lakes land lava layers limestone living lower marine marls mass materials Mesozoic mineral Miocene mountains natural occur Old Red Sandstone organic remains original Palæozoic Paleozoic period Permian plants and animals Pliocene present preserved Prof Professor quartz Red Sandstone regions revised rivers rocks sand schists sediment sedimentary sedimentary rocks shales sheets shells siliceous Silurian soil solid sometimes species stone strata structure substance surface terrestrial Tertiary thick trace Triassic upper various vegetation volcanic
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