 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1869 - 700 pages
...enormous break in time represented by the palaeontological changes Professor Eamsay remarks : — " Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all,...of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Eocene period in England." It is clear, then, that the series is incomplete ; — there is a missing member.... | |
 | Science - 1869 - 692 pages
...enormous break in tune represented by the palseontological changes Professor Eamsay remarks : — " Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all,...of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Eocene period in England." It is clear, then, that the series is incomplete ; — there is a missing member.... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1870 - 382 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. "Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all,...exception of Terebratula caput-serpentis and a few foramiuifera, have apparently become extinct during that vast period that elapsed between the close... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1873 - 712 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Jlesozoic. "Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all, with the exception of Tercbratula cajmt-ser pentia and a few foramiuifera, have apparently become extinct during that vast... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1876 - 720 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. " Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all, with the exception of Tercbratula mput-eerpentts and a few foraminifera, have apparently become extinct during that vast... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - Geomorphology - 1877 - 184 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. "Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all, with the exception of Terebmtula caput-scrpentis and a few foraminifera, have apparently become extinct during that vast... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - 1878 - 712 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. "Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all, with the exception of Terebratula caput-яегрепий and a few foramiuifera, have apparently become extinct during that vast period... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - Geography - 1881 - 718 pages
...varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. ' ' Of the 521 species known in our Upper Chalk, all,...and the beginning of the Eocene epoch in England." — (Professor Ramsay. ) Of the four orders into which fishes are divided, two appear for the first... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - Geology - 1895 - 458 pages
...deposited. The occurrence of many of these projecting peaks would indicate a period of erosion intervening between the close of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Eocene. Furthermore, the Cretaceous at the Winn parish marble quarry is almost horizontal, the limestone rising... | |
 | Thomas Wayland Vaughan - Geology - 1896 - 82 pages
...deposited. The occurrence of many of these projecting peaks would indicate a period of erosion intervening between the close of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Eocene. Furthermore, the Cretaceous at the Winn Parish marble quarry is almost horizontal, the limestone rising... | |
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... the centre outwards, the pith enclosed in a longitudinal canal, and possessed of medullary rays. The fauna is rich, varied, and beautifully preserved. Nearly all the types of life are strictly and peculiarly Mesozoic. 
