Geological Magazine, Volume 3; Volume 33Henry Woodward Cambridge University Press, 1896 - Geology |
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Alatyr Ammonites appear argillaceous augite beds Bonney Boulder-clay boulders Brachiopoda Carboniferous chalk Chalky Clay character Cheirurus chloritic colour conglomerates contain Crag Cretaceous D'Orb denudation deposits described Devonian dikes district Eocene evidence fact fault fauna feet felspar foraminifera formation fossils fragments Geikie genus Geol Geological Society Geological Survey geologists Glacial glacier granite gravel Greensand Highlands Hill horizon island Jurassic Keuper lake latter limestone Lower marine Marl mass matrix mica micaceous miles mineral Neocomian observed occur Old Red Sandstone Oolite origin Palæozoic paper phyllite plates pleuræ portion present probably Prof Professor pygidium quartz referred remarkable rocks sand schists Scotland seen shales shells Silurian slates Southwold species specimens spherulite stones strata structure surface tegmina Tertiary thickness Triassic unconformity Upper Keuper valley vein vertebræ volcanic Whitehaven Woodward zone
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Page 307 - Lebanons, therefore, almost to the Cape there runs a valley, unique both on account of the persistence with which it maintains its trough-like form, throughout the whole of its course of 4000 miles, and also on account of the fact that scattered along its floor is a series of over thirty lakes, of which only one has an outlet to the sea.
Page 361 - It is with deep regret that I have to announce to you the existence in this State of a spirit of defiance to all lawful authority and an insecurity of life which are hardly realized by the general Government or the country at large.
Page 76 - ... was an original member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and in the year 1854 occupied the presidential chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Page 457 - Presidential Address to the Geological Section, 1893. " The good old British ship ' Uniformity,' built by Hutton and refitted by Lyell, has won so many glorious victories in the past, and appears still to be in such excellent fighting trim, that I see no reason why she should haul down her colours either to ' Catastrophe ' or
Page 443 - Stratigraphical geology thus gathers up the sum of all that is made known by the other departments of the science, and makes it subservient to the interpretation of the geological history of the earth.
Page 165 - Mr. SMITH WOODWARD, in reply, said : — Mr. PRESIDENT, — I desire to express my thanks to the Council of the Geological Society for the great honour that they have done me in making this Award, and to yourself, Sir, for the very kind and complimentary terms in which you have presented the Medal. During the last thirteen years I have merely tried to make the best use of the opportunities for research afforded by my official...
Page 543 - ... genetically related to the greenstone and granite, in that they appear to be the extreme products of differentiation. About half the world's nickel supply is drawn from these deposits. — On the distribution in space of the accessory shocks of the great Japanese earthquake of 1891, by Dr. Charles Davison. The object of the author in this paper is to consider the geographical distribution of the numerous shocks which preceded and followed the great earthquake of 1891. Reasons were given for believing...
Page 90 - ON THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE OLD RED SANDSTONE OF SCOTLAND WAS DEPOSITED.
Page 165 - Sir, for the very kind and complimentary terms in which you have presented the Medal. During the last thirteen years I have merely tried to make the best use of the opportunities for research afforded by my official connexion with the British Museum ; and the gratification experienced in the pursuit of duty of this kind is in itself so ample a reward for the labour involved, that a naturalist thus circumstanced scarcely looks for anything beyond it. When, however, the honourable marks of approbation...
Page 203 - The conformable deposition, however, of the Old Red Sandstone upon the preceding Upper Silurian deposits in the counties of Edinburgh and Lanark, the Welsh area, and in the St. Lawrence basin, precludes any such idea; for from the base of the Upper Silurian to the top of the Lower Old Red Sandstone the sequence of these deposits is unbroken. It therefore follows that the denudation of the rocks of the Highland area being marine, the equivalent deposits occurring in the Upper Silurian and Lower Old...