Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 13The Society, 1897 - Natural history |
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Page 273 - the Land of the Globe, and the Relation of Rainfall to the Annual Discharge of Rivers," Royal Scottish Geographical Magazine, iii., pp. 65-77, gives a mass of data of the highest possible value in this respect. From Dr Murray's tables, Mr CD Walcott, in his " Address to Section E of the American Association for the Advancement
Page 273 - American Association for the Advancement of Science" (August 1893), has computed "113 tons as the total amount of matter in solution discharged into the Atlantic basin per annum from each square mile of area drained into it. Of this, 49 tons consist of carbonate of lime and
Page 61 - In the course of the afternoon, when at least forty miles from this rock, we found soundings in one hundred and fifty fathoms water, so that it may be regarded as the summit of a very extensive submarine mountain,
Page 61 - If we estimated our distance from it at all correctly, its situation, as determined by His Majesty's ship ' Endymion,
Page 398 - Additional Notes on the Fossil Fishes of the Upper Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth Area.
Page 314 - in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (vol. xvi.,
Page 298 - Sandstone' consists of three zones—a Lower, graduating down into the Upper Silurian shales; a Middle, bounded both above and below by an unconformable junction; and an Upper, which shades up into the Carboniferous Eocks." This relationship is most clearly and accurately shown upon the " Horizontal" Section of the "Geological Survey of Scotland,
Page 296 - as well, so that we shall count it in another connection. 1 "Extinct Vertebrata of the Moray Firth Area," in Harvie-Brown and Buckley's " Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin," vol. ii. Edinburgh, 1896. Unconformity at the Base of the Upper Old Red.—In the English Lake District the Upper Old
Page 264 - fell in those early days much as it falls now. Wind blew then with apparently no greater force than it does to-day. The tides and currents of those early periods appear to have obeyed exactly the same laws that they do now, and in no 1 The astronomical models in the Museum of Practical Geology, and the more
Page 17 - rock, equally as much as the Tertiary beds of Barbados and the Nicobar Islands, which, according to Haeckel, correspond to the recent