 ... undoubtedly the carboniferous limestone type, and that at Byam Martin's Island, where fossils are found in this sandstone, they are allied to Atrypa fallax and other forms characteristic of the lower sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore,...  Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin - Seite 185von Geological Society of Dublin - 1860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock - 1859 - 504 Seiten
...sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...It is interesting to find at Princess Royal Island, * These specimens are "Drift," but are mentioned here, as they were found on the carboniferous sandstone... | |
 | 1860 - 400 Seiten
...sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...this limestone does occur, and contains a fossil, T. aspera, eminently characteristic of the Eifelian beds of Germany, which form, in that country, the... | |
 | Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock - 1860 - 438 Seiten
...sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...this limestone does occur, and contains a fossil, T. aspera, eminently characteristic of the Eifelian beds of Germany, which form, in that country, the... | |
 | Royal Geological Society of Ireland - 1860 - 414 Seiten
...sandstones of the carboniferous epoch. It is, therefore, highly probable that the coal-beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...this limestone does occur, and contains a fossil, T. aspera, eminently characteristic of the Eifelian beds of Germany, which form, in that country, the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1860 - 524 Seiten
...the Eifel. President Haughton says, " It is therefore highly probable that the coalbeds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...which rest on the summit of the carboniferous beds." The coal itself in some respects resembles some of the gas-coals of Scotland, which form a system older... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1861 - 504 Seiten
...the Eifel. President Haughton says, " It is therefore highly probable that the coalbeds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not...which rest on the summit of the carboniferous beds." The coal itself in some respects resembles some of the gas-coals of Scotland, which form a system older... | |
 | Geological Survey of Canada - 1887 - 1088 Seiten
...sandstones underlie the limestones, and that "it is highly probable that the coal beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not correspond in geological position with the coal beds of Europe," (p. 385.)* • Dr. Armstrong in his Narrative of the Discover}' of the North-west... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1889 - 280 Seiten
...sandstones underlie the limestones, and that " it is highly probable that the coal beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not correspond in geological position with the coal beds of Europe." The following account of the Cretaceous and Tertiary of Greenland is condensed... | |
 | E. Jerome Dyer - 1898 - 302 Seiten
...sandstones underlie the limestones, and that "it is highly probable that the coal beds of Melville Island are very low down in the series, and do not correspond in geological position with the coal beds of Europe " (p. 885).* Cape Hamilton, Baring Island (lat. 74° 15' N. ; long. »117° 80'... | |
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