Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumHenry G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... rock leaves its furrows on the mountain side , the river its channel in the soil , the animal its bones in the ... rocks and strata by the countless myriads of beings which have successively inhabited the earth , through periods of ...
... rock leaves its furrows on the mountain side , the river its channel in the soil , the animal its bones in the ... rocks and strata by the countless myriads of beings which have successively inhabited the earth , through periods of ...
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... rocks of the most ancient epochs they are sometimes as little changed as if they had been entombed in the strata but a few centuries . 1. Fossils , may be defined as the durable parts of animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks ...
... rocks of the most ancient epochs they are sometimes as little changed as if they had been entombed in the strata but a few centuries . 1. Fossils , may be defined as the durable parts of animal and vegetable structures imbedded in rocks ...
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... rock , having only the forms of organic bodies . Certain peculiar conditions in which animal and vegetable remains ... rocks and slabs of stone , though all vestiges of the original structures have perished . And here it will be ...
... rock , having only the forms of organic bodies . Certain peculiar conditions in which animal and vegetable remains ... rocks and slabs of stone , though all vestiges of the original structures have perished . And here it will be ...
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... rock salt . Fawn - coloured limestones . ( Upper Bunter , and Muschelkalk , of Germany . ) PALEOZOIC EPOCHS . Lower ... rocks and Aymestry limestone . ( Herefordshire and Shropshire . ) Wenlock or Dudley limestone . Shales . Caradoc ...
... rock salt . Fawn - coloured limestones . ( Upper Bunter , and Muschelkalk , of Germany . ) PALEOZOIC EPOCHS . Lower ... rocks and Aymestry limestone . ( Herefordshire and Shropshire . ) Wenlock or Dudley limestone . Shales . Caradoc ...
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... the stone when it was in the state of plastic mud , and capable of retaining the imprints of the feet till it became indurated . It was ex- . tracted from the rock with great labour and care. ROOM I. 13 SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS .
... the stone when it was in the state of plastic mud , and capable of retaining the imprints of the feet till it became indurated . It was ex- . tracted from the rock with great labour and care. ROOM I. 13 SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS .
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animal arch articular articulated beds belong birds body bones British Museum caudal vertebræ cavity cervical Cetiosaurus chalk characters clay collection colossal convex coracoid cranium Cretaceous Crocodile crocodilian Cuvier deposits dermal Dinornis discovered distal dorsal Eningen Eocene extinct extremity feet femur figured and described fishes formation fossil fossil remains fragments Gavial genera genus gigantic humerus Hylæosaurus Ichthyolites Ichthyosaurus Iguana Iguanodon imbedded inches long integument Isle length Lign limestone lower jaw Maidstone mammalia margin Mastodon Medals of Creation Megalosaurus Memoir metatarsals Monte Bolca Mosasaurus numerous obtained Oolite Organic Remains original osseous paddles phalangeal plates Plesiosaurus portion posterior present Professor Owen quarry remarkable reptiles resemble ribs sandstone saurians scapula shells skeleton skull slab species specimens spine stems stone Stonesfield strata structure surface Sussex Table-cases tail teeth Teleosaurus tertiary tibia Tilgate Forest tooth Trans transverse upper vertebral column Wall-case Wealden Wonders of Geology Zealand