The Journal of Geology, Volume 1; Volumes 13-14University of Chicago Press, 1893 - Electronic journals Vols. for 1893-1923 includes section: "Reviews." |
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... district , to which I shall immediately refer , no part of the whole region yet examined has revealed to the rigid scrutiny of my colleagues of the Geological Survey , any trace of rocks which can be regarded as probably of other than ...
... district , to which I shall immediately refer , no part of the whole region yet examined has revealed to the rigid scrutiny of my colleagues of the Geological Survey , any trace of rocks which can be regarded as probably of other than ...
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... districts huge slices of the Torridon sandstones have been similarly treated . But where all trace of original structure has disappeared , we have , as yet , no means of definitely determining from what for- mation the present eastern ...
... districts huge slices of the Torridon sandstones have been similarly treated . But where all trace of original structure has disappeared , we have , as yet , no means of definitely determining from what for- mation the present eastern ...
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... districts are so subject to disturbance through cutting down of hills , filling in of depressions , grading of streets , digging of • river at high water and undermined , and the GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS . 27.
... districts are so subject to disturbance through cutting down of hills , filling in of depressions , grading of streets , digging of • river at high water and undermined , and the GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS . 27.
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... districts in other parts of Britain , and the great valley glaciers sometimes coalesced on the low lands . Icebergs floated out at the mouths of some of the highland sea - lochs . In some places , terminal moraines were deposited upon ...
... districts in other parts of Britain , and the great valley glaciers sometimes coalesced on the low lands . Icebergs floated out at the mouths of some of the highland sea - lochs . In some places , terminal moraines were deposited upon ...
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... district , ten miles east of Boston , presents three classes of modified drift deposits ; - sand plateaus , eskers , and kames . These deposits are well exposed . The sand plateaus have the characteristics of delta deposits of glacial ...
... district , ten miles east of Boston , presents three classes of modified drift deposits ; - sand plateaus , eskers , and kames . These deposits are well exposed . The sand plateaus have the characteristics of delta deposits of glacial ...
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Page 175 - He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
Page 266 - The pieces of limestone are so markedly different from the calcareous bed enclosing them that they cannot be confounded with it. The rock fragments are of unequal distribution in the deposit, both laterally and vertically, sometimes composing almost half of it, and sometimes being almost entirely absent. They vary from a fraction of an inch to several inches in diameter and are indiscriminately mixed.
Page 404 - The geographic development of the eastern part of the Mississippi drainage system. Am. Geol., vol. xi, 1893, pp.
Page 611 - Agency of organisms; 2". Chemical precipitation; 3. By mechanical methods. It is the general opinion of geologists that limestone rocks are the result almost entirely of the consolidation of lime removed from the sea water through the agency of life, and that they consist of the remains of foraminifera, crinoids, corals, etc., or their fragments, embedded in a more or less crystalline matrix resulting from subsequent alteration of the original deposits. This, however, has been seriously questioned....
Page 201 - The Crocodilian Remains found in the Elgin Sandstones, with remarks on the Ichnites of Cummingstone.
Page 432 - The non-feldspathic intrusive rocks of Maryland and the course of their alteration.
Page 609 - I obtain 113 tons as the total amount of matter in solution discharged into the Atlantic basin per annum from each square mile of area drained into it. Of this 49 tons consist of carbonate of lime and 5.5 tons of sulphate and phosphate of lime.4 Mechanical sediments.
Page 409 - Price 10 cents. 65. Stratigraphy of the Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by Israel C. White. 1891. 8". 212pp. 11 pi. Price 20 cents. 66. On a Group of Volcanic Rocks from the Tewan Mountains, New Mexico, and on the occurrence of Primary Quartz in certain Basalts, by Joseph Paxson Iddings.
Page 607 - Our knowledge of the conditions north of the 55th parallel is limited by the want of accurate geologic data. If Cambrian and Carboniferous rocks were not deposited in the Mackenzie river basin and also on the eastern side of the area now covered by Cretaceous strata, the inference is that during Cambrian and Carboniferous time there was a land area to the east and north of the northern Cordilleran sea that may have been tributary to the latter.
Page 625 - It is correlated with the Bow River series, which contains, in the upper portion, the lower Cambrian fauna. The presence of these calcareous beds indicates a slower rate of deposition than we have estimated for the lower portion of the Cambrian...