... particle of evidence to sustain the theory which has been so often brought forward, that all, or even a portion of the auriferous rocks are older than the Carboniferous, not a trace of a Devonian or Silurian fossil ever having been discovered in California.... Palæontology - Seite xviiivon Geological Survey of California - 1864 - 299 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1864 - 474 Seiten
...gold being chiefly limited to Silurian rocks, that this metal occurs in no inconsiderable quantity in metamorphic rocks belonging as high up in the series as the Cretaceous. Allusion has already been made to the wide-spread occurrence in California of the Cretaceous formation.... | |
| 1864 - 968 Seiten
...gold being chiefly limited to Silurian rocks, that this metal occurs in no inconsiderable quantity in metamorphic rocks belonging as high up in the series as the Cretaceous. Allusion has already been made to the wide-spread occurrence in California of the Cretaceous formation.... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1865 - 676 Seiten
...Indeed, gold, instead of being chiefly limited to Silurian rocks, occurs in no inconsiderable quantity in Metamorphic rocks belonging as high up in the series as the Cretaceous group (see also p. 330). With regard to the detrital auriferous deposits, they consist of materials... | |
| John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 Seiten
...Silurian fossil ever having been discovered in California. or indeed any where to the west of the n6th meridian. It appears, on the other hand, that no inconsiderable...belonging as high up in the series as the Cretaceous.* While such are the generalizations of Whitney as to the age of the auriferous rocks of the Sierra Nevada,... | |
| John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 Seiten
...Silurian fossil ever having been discovered in California, or indeed any where to the west of the n6th meridian. It appears, on the other hand, that no inconsiderable...obtained from metamorphic rocks, belonging as high up in Ihe series as the Cretaceous.* While such are the generalizations of Whitney as to the age of the auriferous... | |
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