Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Volumen8 |
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anticlinal appear Bairdia barium Barnsley beds Boulder Clay Brady Bridlington carbonate Carboniferous chalk chalky gravel Chalybeate character Chloride cliff coal measures coast considerable containing Cretaceous Davis Dead Sea deposits depth described district east Entomostraca feet fishes flints Foraminifera formation fossil genera genus Geol geologists glacial ground Halifax Harrogate Hilderthorpe Hill Hurst inches iron Jones & Kirkby Jurassic Kilnsea lake Leeds lime localities lower Magnesian Limestone marls McCoy miles Millstone Grit mineral waters neighbourhood North Yorkshire occur Old Sulphur origin Palestine paper peculiar Permian Petalodonts Phillips Pleistocene Polyt Polyzoa Pontefract portion present probably Proc Prof quarries Ripon rocks saline salt sand sandstone Sedgwick Sewerby shales shells side Silurian Skipton Society species specimens springs strata sulphate sulphur water surface teeth thick trace Ulrome upper valley vein whilst yards Yoredale York Yorkshire
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Página 5 - I declare that I had no intention to contradict the text of Scripture ; that I believe most firmly all therein related about the creation, both as to order of time and matter of fact ; I abandon everything in my book respecting the formation of the earth, and, generally, all which may be contrary to the narration of Moses...
Página 139 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Annual Report of the Council was then read : — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Página 172 - GEOLOGY.— Of this we are in ignorance of almost every detail. The valley of the Jordan and basin of the Dead Sea is geologically one of the most remarkable on the earth's surface. To use the words of Sir Roderick Murchison, " it is the key to the whole of the geology of the district.
Página 18 - ... harmonious system have culminated in Darwinism, which takes for its basis the facts already stated, and proposes to explain the analogies of organic structures by reference to a common 'Origin, and their differences to small, mostly congenital, modifications which are integrated in particular directions by external physical conditions, involving a "struggle for existence." Geology is interested in the question of development, and in the particular exposition of it by the great naturalist whose...
Página 10 - ... moment and every spare shilling to the execution of that vast work, ' The Map of the Strata of England and Wales.' After that was published in 1815 he continued his labours in more detail, and issued twenty-one English county maps, coloured geologically after personal examination in each district. His home was full of maps, sections, models, and collections of fossils ; and his hourly talk was of the laws of stratification, the succession of organic life, the practical value of geology, its importance...
Página 256 - Each country ought to be described without any accommodating hypothesis, according to the type after which it has been moulded. But, in comparing the unconnected deposits of remote countries, we must act on an opposite principle; learning to suppress all local phenomena, and to seize on those only which are coextensive with the objects we attempt to classify.
Página 20 - ... to perceive and to reflect ; from the formation of habits of attention and application ; from a bias given to character in favour of cultivating intelligence for its own sake, as well as for the sake of the direct advantages it brings.
Página 69 - ... on a few small patches of bare ground, on its southern side. The flints varied in size from chippings not larger than a pin's head to flakes two inches long. Several small flint cores and one leaf-shaped arrow tip with a broken point were also picked up. Indeed the number of small chips and flakes was so great, as to lead to the conclusion, that flint implements were manufactured there during
Página 276 - Esq., in the Chair. The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : — Joseph Stubbs, Mayor of Warrington.
Página 252 - I6-30 am) with the richest light of heaven ; and from the door of this old home of my childhood, I can look down the valley and see, blue in the distance, the crests of the lake mountains which rear their heads near the top of Windermere. All around me is endeared by the sweet remembrances of early life, for here I spent my childhood and early boyhood, when my father and mother, three sisters, and three brothers were all living in this old home. Our home was humble, but we were a merry crew, and...