The Story of Rocks: A Fourteen Week's Course in Popular GeologyA.S. Barnes, 1871 - 280 Seiten |
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abundant agate ammonite ancient animals Appalachian appearance Arctic Azoic Azoic rocks beaches beautiful beds bones bowlders brachiopod called Carboniferous cave chalk clay coal color continent corals covered Cretaceous crinoids crystals Davies débris deposits Describe Devonian dikes Drift earth earth's crust elephant Epoch existed feldspar fishes forests formation fossils French geologic geologist glacier gneiss Grammar granite heat hills Hugh Miller hyena Ichthyosaur igneous inches Irish elk iron Kinds of rock land lava layers lime limestone mammals mammoth marble mass melted Mesozoic metamorphic metamorphic rocks mica miles Mississippi mollusks mountains Niagara ocean Oölite Paleozoic pebbles period plesiosaur polished Potsdam present Prof quartz region remains reptiles river rocky sand sandstone SCENIC sediment sedimentary rocks shales shells shore Silurian siphuncle slate soft species stone strata stratified rocks striæ surface Tertiary text-books tion traced trees Trenton Triassic trilobite valley vegetation veins Worman's York