The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volumen 84The Society, 1928 Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30) |
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abundant alveolus analcite analcite-syenite Anglesey anticline apex appear bands basalt beds Belemnites brachiopods Brady breccias Buckman calcareous Carboniferous Charmouth Cliff coast Complex Cornbrash Cretaceous Cristellaria Cushman d'Orbigny deposits Dinas Mawddwy Douvillé dykes east Eocene evidence fault fauna feet felspar folding foraminifera formation fossils gabbro Genus Geol Geological Glacial Gneisses granite graptolites Green Clay Gwna Hill holotype horizon Howford Bridge inches intrusion Jabal lava Lias limestone localities Lower Cornbrash Maestrichtian margin Marl Microthyris miles mineral Monograptus moraines mudstones Naparima Clays Nodosaria northern obovata occur Ordovician Ornithella outcrop Passaloteuthis phyllites Porth probably Prof Q. J. G. S. vol quarry quartz region ridge rocks rostrum sandstone seen Series shales siddingtonensis side south-west Sowerby species specimens spilites Stage structure Surv syncline tectonic Tertiary thick thin thrust Trinidad Tropidoceras unconformity Upper Cornbrash valley Westhay whorls Williamsville zone
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Página xxx - not less than one third of the annual interest [of the fund] to accompany the Medal, the remaining interest to be given in one or more portions, at the discretion of the Council, for the encouragement of Geology or of any of the allied sciences by which they shall consider Geology to have been most materially advanced...
Página xxviii - To promote researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth, and to enable the Council of the Geological Society to reward those individuals of any country by whom such researches may hereafter be made," — "such individual not being a Member of the Council.
Página xxxii - To apply the accumulated annual proceeds ... at the end of every three years, in providing a Gold Medal of the value of Twenty Pounds, which, with the remainder of the proceeds, is to be awarded . . . to the person or persons, either male or female, and either resident in England or abroad, who shall have done well for the advancement of the science of Geology...
Página xcix - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : — But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Página xxx - ... to accompany the medal, the remaining interest to be given in one or more portions, at the discretion of the council, for the encouragement of geology or of any of the allied sciences by which they shall consider geology to have been most materially advanced, either for travelling expenses or for a memoir or paper published or in progress, and without reference to the sex or nationality of the author or the language in which any such memoir or paper may be written.
Página xliv - Rocks are things with a history which may be read by the study of their present characters. Geology is a science of time, studying the succession of events. It is not applied physics or chemistry, although these sciences may give an important aid to geology. It is just because the metamorphic rocks represent very different stages of change, that their empirical study, by the aid especially of the...
Página xxx - There is a further provision for suspending the award for one year, and in «uch case for the awarding of a Medal to 'each of two persons who have been jointly engaged in the same exploration in the same country, or perhaps on allied subjects in different countries, the proportion of interest always not being less to each Medal than one third of the annual interest.
Página xxx - I give to the Geological Society of London the Die executed by Mr. Leonard Wyon of a Medal to be cast in Bronze and to be given annually and called the Lyell Medal, and to be regarded as a mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of the Governing Body of the Society that the Medallist (who may be of any Country or either sex) has deserved well of the Science.
Página xc - A crescent phylum is more variable, more plastic than a long-established one ; that is, time is always an element in the fixation of characters and the limitation of variation.