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... limestones . CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS . For the purposes of the palaeontologist all the rocks which enter into the composition of the solid exterior of the earth may be divided into two great classes : -1 . The Igneous Rocks , which are ...
... limestones . CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS . For the purposes of the palaeontologist all the rocks which enter into the composition of the solid exterior of the earth may be divided into two great classes : -1 . The Igneous Rocks , which are ...
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... limestone which is soft and pulverulent , with an earthy fracture . It is nearly pure carbonate of lime , and is to a great extent an organically - formed rock , consisting mainly of the minute calcareous shells of Foraminifera , with ...
... limestone which is soft and pulverulent , with an earthy fracture . It is nearly pure carbonate of lime , and is to a great extent an organically - formed rock , consisting mainly of the minute calcareous shells of Foraminifera , with ...
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... limestone . Other limestone deposits , such as the stalactites and stalag- mites of caves , and the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine " of some hot springs , are purely chemical in their origin , and owe nothing to the operation of ...
... limestone . Other limestone deposits , such as the stalactites and stalag- mites of caves , and the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine " of some hot springs , are purely chemical in their origin , and owe nothing to the operation of ...
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... Limestone or Sub - Carboniferous Limestone . This formation occurs in localities as remote from one another as Europe , Central Asia , North America , South America , and Australia ; and it is characterised by an assemblage of well ...
... Limestone or Sub - Carboniferous Limestone . This formation occurs in localities as remote from one another as Europe , Central Asia , North America , South America , and Australia ; and it is characterised by an assemblage of well ...
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... Limestone in its original area , the condi- tions there present must be supposed to have become unsuit- able for the further existence in that area of the assemblage of animals which had been its inhabitants , or , at any rate , for a ...
... Limestone in its original area , the condi- tions there present must be supposed to have become unsuit- able for the further existence in that area of the assemblage of animals which had been its inhabitants , or , at any rate , for a ...
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abundant allied ambulacral anchylosed animal aperture appear appendages articulated attained beak beds belong Birds Bivalves body bones bony Brachiopods calcareous calyx Cambrian Carboniferous Carboniferous Rocks Cephalopods Chalk characterised clavicles commence composed comprising consists coral Cretaceous Cretaceous period Crinoids Crustaceans deposits Devonian division dorsal Eocene Eocene Tertiary existing extinct feet fins fishes Foraminifera formation forms fossil Ganoids genera genus gills Graptolites horny Hydrozoa incisors integument Jurassic known Lastly latter less limbs Limestone living lower jaw Lower Silurian Mammals margin Mesozoic Miocene molars Mollusca mouth occur Oolites operculum pair Paleozoic pectoral Permian placed plants plates Pliocene Polyzoa possession Post-Pliocene Post-Tertiary posterior present day regarded remains represented Reptiles ribs Sandstone segments septa shell side Silurian Rocks single siphuncle skeleton sometimes spines strata structure sub-kingdom sub-order surface sutures tail teeth toes Trias Triassic tube Upper Cambrian Upper Silurian usually vertebræ whilst whorls Zoantharia
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