| Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1889 - 918 Seiten
...Limestone, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiangroup 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... | |
| Worthington Hooker - 1894 - 370 Seiten
...nummulitic formation," says Lyell, " with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid frame-work of the earth's crust,-whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1911 - 750 Seiten
...mountain-chains a thickness of several thousand feet. It may be said to play a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiary group in the solid framework...of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or North Africa. It occurs in Algeria and Morocco, and has been traced from Egypt, where it was largely... | |
| 1877 - 560 Seiten
...shells of certain kinds of mollusks. Of this formation we nre told— " It plavs a 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 manv thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and... | |
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