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... consists of various different materials , produced at different successive periods , occupying certain definite spaces , and not confusedly mixed together , but , on the contrary , exhibiting a definite and discoverable order of arrange ...
... consists of various different materials , produced at different successive periods , occupying certain definite spaces , and not confusedly mixed together , but , on the contrary , exhibiting a definite and discoverable order of arrange ...
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... consist of a single material , as in a block of sandstone , or they may consist of different materials . When examined on a large scale , they are always found to consist of alternations of layers of different mineral composition . We ...
... consist of a single material , as in a block of sandstone , or they may consist of different materials . When examined on a large scale , they are always found to consist of alternations of layers of different mineral composition . We ...
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... consists of sulphuric acid in combination with lime and two atoms of water ; or , in other words , it is a hydrated sulphate of lime . It commonly occurs as a whitish or yellowish - white rock , something like loaf - sugar to look at ...
... consists of sulphuric acid in combination with lime and two atoms of water ; or , in other words , it is a hydrated sulphate of lime . It commonly occurs as a whitish or yellowish - white rock , something like loaf - sugar to look at ...
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... consisting of three principal pairs of ganglia . Heart well developed , consisting of at least two chambers . CLASS IV . LAMELLIBRANCHIATA ( Bivalve Shell - fish ) . -No distinct head ; no teeth . Body enclosed in a shell which is " bi ...
... consisting of three principal pairs of ganglia . Heart well developed , consisting of at least two chambers . CLASS IV . LAMELLIBRANCHIATA ( Bivalve Shell - fish ) . -No distinct head ; no teeth . Body enclosed in a shell which is " bi ...
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... consists of a chambered calcareous skele- b C B a a b A a a b Fig . 10. - Diagram of a portion of Eozoon ( after Carpenter ) .— A , B , C , Three tiers of chambers communicating with one another by constricted apertures ; a a The true ...
... consists of a chambered calcareous skele- b C B a a b A a a b Fig . 10. - Diagram of a portion of Eozoon ( after Carpenter ) .— A , B , C , Three tiers of chambers communicating with one another by constricted apertures ; a a The true ...
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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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