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... fossil " -Pro- cesses of Fossilisation - Definition of " rock " -Classification of Rocks , CHAPTER II . Characters ... fossils of known contemporaneous strata - Geological continuity - Relations be- tween the Chalk and the Atlantic Ooze ...
... fossil " -Pro- cesses of Fossilisation - Definition of " rock " -Classification of Rocks , CHAPTER II . Characters ... fossils of known contemporaneous strata - Geological continuity - Relations be- tween the Chalk and the Atlantic Ooze ...
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... fossils are the remains of recent animals - that is , of animals which are still found in a living condition upon the globe . The term " sub- fossil , " sometimes applied to these , has been more appropriately applied in another sense ...
... fossils are the remains of recent animals - that is , of animals which are still found in a living condition upon the globe . The term " sub- fossil , " sometimes applied to these , has been more appropriately applied in another sense ...
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... fossil . Here we need only consider the three lead- ing forms in which fossils present themselves . In the first instance , the fossil is to all intents and purposes an actual organic remain , being itself a fragment of an animal or ...
... fossil . Here we need only consider the three lead- ing forms in which fossils present themselves . In the first instance , the fossil is to all intents and purposes an actual organic remain , being itself a fragment of an animal or ...
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... fossils which present with the greatest accuracy the external form , and even sometimes the in- ternal minute structure ... fossil wood , which presents the rings of growth and fibrous structure of wood , and which under the microscope ...
... fossils which present with the greatest accuracy the external form , and even sometimes the in- ternal minute structure ... fossil wood , which presents the rings of growth and fibrous structure of wood , and which under the microscope ...
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... fossils , again , range vertically through many groups of strata , and in some cases even through several formations . Such fossils , there- fore , if occurring by themselves , or considered apart from other associated organisms , are ...
... fossils , again , range vertically through many groups of strata , and in some cases even through several formations . Such fossils , there- fore , if occurring by themselves , or considered apart from other associated organisms , are ...
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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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