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... tract by .the "general appellation of the Weymouth District: it is a tract of no smalt importance in the geological history of England : — 1. From its position near the south-western termination of several principal formations of this ...
... tract by .the "general appellation of the Weymouth District: it is a tract of no smalt importance in the geological history of England : — 1. From its position near the south-western termination of several principal formations of this ...
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... tract by the general appellation of the Weymouth District : it is a tract of no small importance in the geological history of England : - 1. From its position near the south - western termination of several principal formations of this ...
... tract by the general appellation of the Weymouth District : it is a tract of no small importance in the geological history of England : - 1. From its position near the south - western termination of several principal formations of this ...
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... tract it attains a high elevation , rising near the central part at least 500 feet into the lofty eminences of Preston Hill , Charlbury , and Bincombe Hill : at these three places its elevation is little less than that of the chalk ...
... tract it attains a high elevation , rising near the central part at least 500 feet into the lofty eminences of Preston Hill , Charlbury , and Bincombe Hill : at these three places its elevation is little less than that of the chalk ...
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... tract near six miles long , and from two to three miles broad , constituting the lowest strata and central belt of that district . This central belt emerges at Radipole from beneath the Oxford clay , and is less elevated than the ...
... tract near six miles long , and from two to three miles broad , constituting the lowest strata and central belt of that district . This central belt emerges at Radipole from beneath the Oxford clay , and is less elevated than the ...
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... tract of about a mile in length , from east to west , and nearly a mile in breadth † . This tract occupies the slope and under - terrace , between the summit of Abbotsbury Common and the sea , and is composed chiefly of ferruginous ...
... tract of about a mile in length , from east to west , and nearly a mile in breadth † . This tract occupies the slope and under - terrace , between the summit of Abbotsbury Common and the sea , and is composed chiefly of ferruginous ...
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Ammonites Atherfield basalt beds beneath bluish bottom Bucks calcareous carboniferous chalk chert Chine cliff coal coast colour concretions containing Court-at-Street Cyclas Cypris dark deposit east elevation escarpment feet thick ferruginous flints Folkstone formation fossils fragments freshwater Fuller's earth Gault Geol Geological green particles greenish grey grit Hastings sands heights Hill Hunstanton Hythe inches Isle of Portland Isle of Wight Kent Kimmeridge clay lime limestone Lower green-sand Mantell marl Martin masses miles nearly north-west occur oolite Ostrea Oxford oolite Pecten pits Plate portions Portland sand Portland stone Portland strata Pulborough Purbeck strata quarries red sandstone ridge rise road rock sand-rock Sandgate sandy clay shale shells shore slaty species specimens strata stratum surface Suss Sussex thence thin trachyte tract Upper green-sand Vale of Wardour valley Weald clay Wealden Weymouth Whitchurch whorls
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Página 14 - The regular and uniform preservation of this thin bed of black earth over a distance of many miles, shows that the change from dry land to the state of a freshwater lake or estuary, was not accompanied by any violent denudation, or rush of water, since the loose black earth, together with the trees which lay prostrate on its surface, must inevitably have been swept away had any such violent...
Página 362 - Gawilghur it appears stratified, the summits of several ravines presenting a continued stratum of many thousand yards in length. As Colonel Sykes accurately remarks, there does not appear to be any uniformity in the alternation of the strata, "but the general level, thickness, and extent of a stratum are preserved, as in sedimentary rocks, on both sides of a valley; the basalt and hardest amygdaloid being traceable for miles in the parallel spurs or ranges ; but the imbedded minerals, and even the...
Página 367 - Causeway in Ireland. It passes through every variety of texture, from pulverulent, friable, and indurated, to compact earthy jasper. The stratum is from an inch in thickness to many feet. The rock makes a red streak on paper, with the exception of the very indurated kinds, and does not affect the needle. It is pulverulent near the basaltic columns at Serroor, friable under sub-columnar red amygdaloid, near the source of the Seena river, indurated under basalt at Kothool. Although hard, it is here...
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Página 367 - Ahmednuggur, in the valley of the Godavery river, it is found as a porphyritic stratum many feet in thickness, and is used as a building stone. The imbedded matter consists of very minute crystals of lime. At Wangee, lying nearly in the latitude of Barlonee, but differing...
Página 370 - ... observed the same peculiar stratum near Sagar. He says, " There occurs an amygdaloidal or porphyritic rock, consisting of a compact basis of wacke, in which are imbedded in great abundance small globular or uniform masses, but more usually long, curved, cylindrical, or vermiform crystals of zeolite." The other rock occurs as a thick stratum of amygdaloid, at the elevation of 4000 feet, in the hill forts of Hurreechundurghur and Poorundhur, and in the bed of the Goreh River at 1800 feet, near...
Página 369 - ... and with a disposition to determinate forms, are piled upon each other, constituting rude pillars. In certain parts of the country from fifty to sixty of these heaps are seen within the area of a couple of square miles, and it excites surprise that the intermediate ground is destitute of stones. Sheets of Rock. Mention must not be omitted of the constant recurrence of sheets of rock of considerable extent at the surface, and totally destitute of soil : this is particularly the case in the Mawals,...
Página 203 - ... since it is easily dressed in the rough, and grinds away faster in the finishing process. The method of manufacturing the Cretaceous sandstones at Blackdown, England, is told in an entertaining manner in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London for 1836.* The writer says : "When first taken the stone is greenish and moist, and can be cut or chopped with ease. The tools employed are a sort of adze called a basing hammer. The others are ordinary picks and shovels. A vertical post or...