 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...portions having been swgpt away, so that what remains of it often terminates abruptly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift....displacing the course of the ancient rivers. Lastly, the disTHE ANTIQUITY OF THE HUMAN EACE. 555 appearance of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other genera of... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1894 - 478 pages
...valley formed?" Lyell thought that "river erosion" will account for most of the phenomena, but added, "I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France." Murchison took up the same position, but claimed for the phenomena the action of much stronger and... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1895 - 692 pages
...formed ? " Lyell thought that " river erosion " will account for most of the phenomena, but added, " I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France." Murchison took up the same position, but claimed for the phenomena the action of much stronger and... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 764 pages
...having being swept away, so that what remains of it often terminates abruptly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift....deranging, but not wholly displacing the course of ancient rivers." The President of the British Association, in his opening speech at the meeting of... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...portions having been swept away, so that what remains of it often terminates abruptly in old rivercliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift....deranging, but not wholly displacing the course of ancient rivers." The President of the British Association, in his opening speech at the meeting of... | |
 | Art - 1859 - 552 pages
...of it oftcMi terminates abrubtly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer nnstra'ified drift. To explain these changes, I should infer considerable...oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France—slof movements of upheaval mid subsidence, deranging, but not wholly displacing, the cour.-e... | |
 | Sir William Crookes, George Wharton Simpson - Photography - 1860 - 858 pages
...undergone. To explain these changes, he inferred considerable oscillations in the level of the hind in that part of France— slow movements of upheaval...disappearance of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other ?raera of quadrupeds, now foreign to Europe, implies a vast i»p# of ages separating the era in which... | |
 | 1860 - 536 pages
...portions having been swept away, so that what remains of it otten terminates abruptly in old river-clifts, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift....infer considerable oscillations in the level of the laud in that part of France — slow movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging, but not wholly... | |
 | 1860 - 542 pages
...of it often terminates abruptly in old river-clifts, besides being covered by a newer unstratificd drift. To explain these changes I should infer considerable...oscillations in the level of the land in that part of Franco — slow movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging, but not wholly displacing, the course... | |
 | Geology - 1860 - 512 pages
...having been swept away, so that what remains of it often terminates abruptly in old river cliff's, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift....these changes I should infer considerable oscillations of the land in that part of France — slaw movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging but not... | |
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Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic, and also for the denudation which the entire mass of stratified drift has undergone : portions having been swept away, so that what remains of it often... 
