 ... besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift. To explain these changes, I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France ; slow movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging, but not wholly displacing,...  Year Book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 256by John Timbs - 1860Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1859
...often terminates abruptly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift. To explain these changes I should infer considerable...displacing the course of the ancient rivers. Lastly, the disTHE ANTIQUITY OF THE HUMAN EACE. 555 appearance of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other genera of... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1894
...valley formed?" Lyell thought that "river erosion" will account for most of the phenomena, but added, "I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France." Murchison took up the same position, but claimed for the phenomena the action of much stronger and... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1895
...formed ? " Lyell thought that " river erosion " will account for most of the phenomena, but added, " I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France." Murchison took up the same position, but claimed for the phenomena the action of much stronger and... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Knowles - 1864
...often terminates abruptly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift. To explain these changes, I should infer considerable...deranging, but not wholly displacing the course of ancient rivers." The President of the British Association, in his opening speech at the meeting of... | |
 | 1862
...often terminates abruptly in old rivercliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift. To explain these changes, I should infer considerable...deranging, but not wholly displacing the course of ancient rivers." The President of the British Association, in his opening speech at the meeting of... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1859
...oftcMi terminates abrubtly in old river-cliffs, besides being covered by a newer nnstra'ified drift. To explain these changes, I should infer considerable...oscillations in the level of the land in that part of France—slof movements of upheaval mid subsidence, deranging, but not wholly displacing, the cour.-e... | |
 | George Wharton Simpson, Sir William Crookes - Photography - 1860
...undergone. To explain these changes, he inferred considerable oscillations in the level of the hind in that part of France— slow movements of upheaval...disappearance of the elephant, rhinoceros, and other ?raera of quadrupeds, now foreign to Europe, implies a vast i»p# of ages separating the era in which... | |
 | Geology - 1860
...these changes I should infer considerable oscillations of the land in that part of France — slaw movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging but...disappearance of the Elephant, Rhinoceros, and other genera of quadrupads now foreign to Europe implies, in like manner, a vast lapse of ages, separating the era... | |
 | 1860
...often terminates abruptly in old river-clifts, besides being covered by a newer unstratificd drift. To explain these changes I should infer considerable...oscillations in the level of the land in that part of Franco — slow movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging, but not wholly displacing, the course... | |
 | 1860
...otten terminates abruptly in old river-clifts, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift. To explain these changes I should infer considerable oscillations in the level of the laud in that part of France — slow movements of upheaval and subsidence, deranging, but not wholly... | |
| |
