 | Edward Balfour - 1855 - 116 Seiten
...successive geological periods when they originated. These remains are termed fossils by which is meant a body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. It is in the Aqueous Rocks that fossils chiefly occur for which reason this class of rocks are often... | |
 | Cornelius S. Cartee - 1855 - 348 Seiten
...the rays of light are concentrated by a lens. Fos'sil, any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Fossiliferous, fossil-bearing. Func'iion, the action of an organ, or system of organs. Funfffus, plural... | |
 | Cornelius Sowle Cartée - 1861 - 356 Seiten
...element in the form of a yellowish-brown gas. Fos'sil, any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Fune'tion, the action of an organ, or system of organs. Fun'gta, plural fungi, mushroom. Gattina'ceous,... | |
 | Albert David Hager - 1862 - 314 Seiten
...epoch, or of common origin. Fossil — fodio, I dig. Any organic body, or the traces of any organic body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. FossUiferous — Containing fossils. Fossilised — Converted into a fossil. Fumarole — Subterraneous... | |
 | Jonathan BIRD - 1863 - 384 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere embedded in... | |
 | 1872 - 822 Seiten
...in this direction, and first at his definition of a fossil. " By fossil," he says (p. 5), "is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...has been buried in the earth by natural causes." The word as used at an early day included minerals, no less than organic forms, and thus meant, as etymological... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1871 - 656 Seiten
...independent evidence of fossils, so abundantly included in the earth's crust. By a, fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere imbedded, in... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1871 - 224 Seiten
...Ly ell's- Manual of Geology, page I. " By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of theexistence of any body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. The remains of animals, especially of aquatic species, are found almost everywhere imbedded in stratified... | |
 | Alonzo G. Whitman, Joseph W. Keene - 1872 - 148 Seiten
...Geology is the history of the earth's crust, as taught by its rocks and fossils. By a fossil we mean any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...has been buried in the earth by natural causes. The fossils show us the former life, both animal and vegetable, which existed upon the surface of the earth... | |
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By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body, whether animal or vegetable, which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. 
