The Ancient Life-history of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological ScienceD. Appleton & Company, 1878 - 407 páginas |
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... Whilst primarily intended for stu- dents , it may be added that the method of treatment adopted has been so far untechnical as not to render the work useless to the general reader who may desire to acquire some knowledge of a subject of ...
... Whilst primarily intended for stu- dents , it may be added that the method of treatment adopted has been so far untechnical as not to render the work useless to the general reader who may desire to acquire some knowledge of a subject of ...
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... whilst others are comparative parvenus . We have also the clearest evidence that the animals and plants which now inhabit the globe have been preceded , over and over again , by other different assem- blages of animals and plants ...
... whilst others are comparative parvenus . We have also the clearest evidence that the animals and plants which now inhabit the globe have been preceded , over and over again , by other different assem- blages of animals and plants ...
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... whilst shells become fragile , and lose their primitive colours . In other cases , though practically the real body it represents , all the cavities of the fossil , down to its minutest recesses , may have become infiltrated with ...
... whilst shells become fragile , and lose their primitive colours . In other cases , though practically the real body it represents , all the cavities of the fossil , down to its minutest recesses , may have become infiltrated with ...
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... whilst they have been mechanically transported for a greater or less distance from the rock of which they originally formed part . The analogue of the old conglomerates at the present day is to be found in the great beds of shingle and ...
... whilst they have been mechanically transported for a greater or less distance from the rock of which they originally formed part . The analogue of the old conglomerates at the present day is to be found in the great beds of shingle and ...
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... whilst some plants form hard structures within their tissues in a precisely similar manner . We do meet with some calcareous deposits , such as the " stalactites " and " stalagmites " of caves , the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine ...
... whilst some plants form hard structures within their tissues in a precisely similar manner . We do meet with some calcareous deposits , such as the " stalactites " and " stalagmites " of caves , the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine ...
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abundant allied Amongst ancient animals attain beds belong Birds Bivalves bones bony Brachiopods Britain calcareous Cambrian carbonate Carboniferous Chalk characteristic clays coal Coal-measures composed consists contain Corals Cretaceous Crinoids Crustaceans Cycads deposits Devonian Elephants Eocene Europe existing species extinct genus feet fishes Foraminifera formation forms fossils Ganoids genera genus Geol geological gigantic Glacial Graptolites Greensand horny Journ Jurassic known Lastly Laurentian less Lias lime limestones living Lower Silurian Mammals marine Mesozoic Miocene Mollusca natural North America numerous occur Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organic origin Owen Palæontographical Society Paleozoic period Permian plants plates Pliocene portion possessed Post-Pliocene present day principal Pterosaurs Quadrupeds regarded represented Reptiles resembling Rhinoceros rocks sands shales shell singular siphuncle skeleton skull Slates strata structure surface tail teeth Tertiary thickness tion tooth Trias Triassic Trilobites types Univalves Upper Miocene Upper Silurian vertebræ whilst yielded the remains
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