Geological Magazine, Volume 6Henry Woodward Cambridge University Press, 1879 - Electronic journals |
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Page 28 - Kinahan's work, now before us, aims to give a more detailed account of the strata, and of the facts to be observed in the field, thus acting as a guide to the geologist in his explorations. As the general features of the Geology of Ireland were pointed out at some length in the notice of Prof. Hull's book (see GEOL.
Page 21 - Florence of Worcester says : — "On the third day of the nones of Nov. 1099, the sea came out upon the shore, and buried towns and men very many, and oxen and sheep innumerable.
Page 48 - Thus there cannot be the shadow of a doubt as to the length of time which must have elapsed between the close of the Upper Silurian and the commencement of the Carboniferous Period, and of the greatness of the work accomplished in that time.
Page 262 - ... glacial deposits of Scotland had been a subject of especial investigation, to conclude that the extension of these two glaciers took place during the second cold period, which he thinks was of little less intensity than the first, and that, while the glacier from Glen Arkaig blocked up Glen Gluoy, the glacier from Glen Treig formed a barrier to Glen Roy. He observes, " Grant, then, these two ice-streams, one in the Great Caledonian Valley and the other at Glen Treig, and the problem of the Parallel...
Page 104 - The trunks of the trees gradually decay until they are converted into a blackish-brown substance resembling peat, but which still retains more or less of the fibrous structure of the wood ; and layers of this often alternate with layers of clay and sand, the whole being penetrated, to the depth of four or five yards or more, by the long fibrous roots of the willows.
Page 455 - Palaeozoic rocks. The lowest observed occurrence of these beds is in the valley of the main Yellowstone, between the first and second canons, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. They appear to be destitute of animal remains, but the greater part of this immense group of strata is filled with the silicified remains of a multitude of forests.
Page 21 - because the lands covered by seas were originally at different altitudes, that the waters have risen, or subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated others. But the reason is, that the same land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again.