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... sometimes a further complication . If the rock be very porous and permeable by water , it may happen that the original shell is entirely dissolved away , leaving the interior cast loose , like the kernel of a nut , within the case ...
... sometimes a further complication . If the rock be very porous and permeable by water , it may happen that the original shell is entirely dissolved away , leaving the interior cast loose , like the kernel of a nut , within the case ...
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... Sometimes , however , they owe their origin to chemical or vital action , when they would more properly be spoken of simply as Aqueous Rocks . As to their mode of deposition , we are enabled to infer that the materials which compose ...
... Sometimes , however , they owe their origin to chemical or vital action , when they would more properly be spoken of simply as Aqueous Rocks . As to their mode of deposition , we are enabled to infer that the materials which compose ...
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... sometimes in irregular cakes or veins . It is paleontologically important as occasionally yielding well - preserved fossils ; but its exact mode of origin has not yet been fully worked out . Coal is , in all those forms to which the ...
... sometimes in irregular cakes or veins . It is paleontologically important as occasionally yielding well - preserved fossils ; but its exact mode of origin has not yet been fully worked out . Coal is , in all those forms to which the ...
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... sometimes being afforded by mineral characters . The first and most obvious test of the age of any aqueous rock is its relative position to other rocks . Any bed or set of beds of sedimentary origin is obviously and necessarily older ...
... sometimes being afforded by mineral characters . The first and most obvious test of the age of any aqueous rock is its relative position to other rocks . Any bed or set of beds of sedimentary origin is obviously and necessarily older ...
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... sometimes render it difficult to say where one series ceases and the other commences . The land and littoral faunas are necessarily more liable to change than a deep - sea fauna , because an island or part of a continent may be ...
... sometimes render it difficult to say where one series ceases and the other commences . The land and littoral faunas are necessarily more liable to change than a deep - sea fauna , because an island or part of a continent may be ...
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