 | 1886 - 376 Seiten
...animal or vegetable, which have inhabited this globe at past periods in its history. 15. A fossil is any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. 1 6. From the Latin fossus, meaning dug up. 1 7. Petrifactions. 18. Yes. Examples are the external... | |
 | Henry William Crosskey - 1889 - 140 Seiten
...began, are called fossils. Lyell's definition of a fossil is as follows :—" By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...has been buried in the earth by natural causes." the Pyrenees, 10,000 feet in the Alps, 13,000 feet in the Andes, and 18,000 feet in the Himalayas. The... | |
 | 1890 - 492 Seiten
...regret we have not time to refer to its triumphs in detail. This brings us back to Lyell's definition of a fossil as " any body or the traces of the existence...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes." At first all objects dug up, whether organic or mineral, were called fossil, but when organic remains... | |
 | William Hittell Sherzer - 1900 - 316 Seiten
...series and the physical and biological history of the earth deciphered. By Lyell a fossil was denned as any body, or the traces of the existence of any...has been buried in the earth by natural causes. The cast or mould of any organism whatever, the imprint of a leaf or the foot print of an animal would... | |
 | 1902 - 394 Seiten
...whether "species" exist at all. The etymology is fossilis, anything that may be dug out of the earth. But the traces of the existence of any body, whether animal...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes, is a fossil. Even the cast of a fossil shell made by mud or clay, hardened, as we find it, is deemed... | |
 | New Jersey Geological Survey - 1906 - 472 Seiten
...out what Huxley has most happily termed "retrospective prophecy." By the term "fossil" we understand any body or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. This was Sir Charles Lyell's definition, and it is probably as good a one as has ever been formulated.... | |
 | 1911 - 624 Seiten
...MANNER OK OCCURRENCE. DEFINITIONS. According to a definition proposed by Charles Lyell, a fossil is "any body, or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes." Fossils, or "petri factious," as they are sometimes termed, may also be defined as parts of plants... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1911 - 750 Seiten
...included in the earth's crust. By a fossil is meant any body, or the traces of the existence of an organic body — whether animal or vegetable — which has been buried in the earth by natural causes. Every stratum was the burial-ground of its time. Now the remains of animals, especially of aquatic... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - 1912 - 688 Seiten
...periodicals, be has published under the pseudonym " Harry Castlemon " over 30 books for boys. Fossil, any body or the traces of the existence of any body,...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes; one of the bodies called organic remains. Even the cast of a fossil shell, that is the impression which... | |
 | Amadeus William Grabau - 1913 - 1234 Seiten
...time of the earliest fossiliferous strata to the present. This is the position taken by Lyell, who defines a fossil as: "Any body or the traces of the...which has been buried in the earth by natural causes." In this definition made by the geologist the time element is entirely omitted and in this respect it... | |
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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. 
