 | 1888 - 596 Seiten
...Fustilinn : and the Nnmrtinhtes, which in Tertiary times played so conspicuous a part in building up the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. The great Nummulitie Limestone often attains many thousands of feet in thickness, and extends from... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...modern date. The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...modern date. The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 418 Seiten
...formation, with its characteristic fossils,' observes Sir Charles Lyell, 'plays a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiary Group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is... | |
 | John Thomas Quekett - 1854 - 514 Seiten
...Charles Lyell,* the nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa, it often attains a * Manual of Elementary Geology, 3rd Editiou, p. 234 . thickness of many thousand feet,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 686 Seiten
...Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia Minor, and across Persia by Bagdad to the mouths of the Indus.... | |
 | Joseph Reay Greene - 1863 - 132 Seiten
...Charles Lyell. " The Nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1865 - 372 Seiten
..."The nummulitic formation," says Lyell, "with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid frame-work...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and... | |
 | David Page - 1865 - 520 Seiten
...The nummulitic formation," says Lyell, "with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. Tt often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, aud extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 866 Seiten
...modern date. The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework...earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and... | |
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... any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa,... 
