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... Deposits - Pre - Glacial Mammals— Glacial Deposits - Glacial Shells - Post - Glacial Deposits - Post- Glacial Mammals , GLOSSARY , INDEX , • 554-562 563-585 586-601 PART I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION PALEONTOLOGY . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ...
... Deposits - Pre - Glacial Mammals— Glacial Deposits - Glacial Shells - Post - Glacial Deposits - Post- Glacial Mammals , GLOSSARY , INDEX , • 554-562 563-585 586-601 PART I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION PALEONTOLOGY . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ...
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... deposits may vary in different parts of the lake , according as one stream brought down one kind of material and ... deposit all the materials which they bring down at their mouths , forming in this way their " deltas . " Whenever such a ...
... deposits may vary in different parts of the lake , according as one stream brought down one kind of material and ... deposit all the materials which they bring down at their mouths , forming in this way their " deltas . " Whenever such a ...
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... deposit called " ooze , " which forms a considerable portion of the bed of the deep At- lantic , and which will be ... deposits , such as the stalactites and stalag- mites of caves , and the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine " of ...
... deposit called " ooze , " which forms a considerable portion of the bed of the deep At- lantic , and which will be ... deposits , such as the stalactites and stalag- mites of caves , and the " calcareous tufa " and " travertine " of ...
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... deposits into a number of definite rock - groups or formations , each of which is characterised by possessing an assemblage of organic remains which do not occur in association in any other formation . Such an assemblage of fossils ...
... deposits into a number of definite rock - groups or formations , each of which is characterised by possessing an assemblage of organic remains which do not occur in association in any other formation . Such an assemblage of fossils ...
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... deposits of the new area . When , ages afterwards , we come to examine the crust of the earth geologically , we should find these identical and characteristic species of fossils in the rocks of the two areas , and we should say " these ...
... deposits of the new area . When , ages afterwards , we come to examine the crust of the earth geologically , we should find these identical and characteristic species of fossils in the rocks of the two areas , and we should say " these ...
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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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