The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain: A Manual of British GeologyE. Stanford, 1878 - 639 pages |
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Ammonites basin beds of coal bones Boulder-clay Britain British Cambrian Carboniferous Limestone caves Chalk chiefly cliffs cloth coal-field Coal-measures coast coloured conglomerates consist contain Crag Cretaceous denudation deposited Devonian district east Edward Stanford England Eocene escarpment estuary feet thick flint flow formations formed fossils fresh-water genera geological Glacial epoch glacier gneiss granite gravel ground Highlands hills Hyæna igneous rocks inches interstratified islands lakes land lime Llandeilo London Clay Lower Greensand Lower Lias Magnesian Limestone mammalia marine masses Merionethshire miles Millstone Grit Miocene moraine mountains mounted on linen neighbourhood North Wales numerous occur Old Red Sandstone origin Palæozoic partly Permian physical geography plain Purbeck Red Marl regions Rhætic river roches moutonnées sand Scale Scotland sediments shales sheet shells slates slopes South Wales species stones strata surface Thames unconformably Upper Greensand Upper Silurian valley varnished volcanic Weald Wealden whole Yorkshire
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Page 589 - This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width...
Page 475 - human remains and works of art, such as arrow-heads and knives of flint, occur in all parts of the cave and throughout the entire thickness of the clay : and no distinction founded on condition, distribution, or relative position, can be observed, whereby the human can be separated from the •other reliquiae," which included bones of the "elephant, rhinoceros, ox, deer, horse, bear, hyaena, and a feline animal of large size.
Page iv - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 260 - Dcemonorops) twined its snake-like form. In the shade of the forest throve numerous ferns, one species of which (Pecopteris lignitum) seems to have formed trees of imposing grandeur...
Page 544 - ... answer which I give to all these queries is simply this — the palaeolithic deposits are of pre-glacial and inter-glacial age, and do not, in any part, belong to post-glacial times. They are either entirely wanting or very sparingly represented in the midland and northern counties, in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, because all those regions have again and again been subjected to the grinding action of land-ice, and the destructive influence of the sea. But in those districts which were never...