 | Zoology - 1888 - 596 pages
...Asia, or Africa. The great Nummulitie Limestone often attains many thousands of feet in thickness, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in North Africa, both in Morocco and Algeria. In Egypt it was largely quarried during the early dynasties... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1851 - 602 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is found in the Carpathians, and in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1852 - 570 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is found in the Carpathians, and in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example,... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - Geology - 1852 - 418 pages
...Charles Lyell, 'plays a far more conspicuous part than any other Tertiary Group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is found in the Carpathians, and in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example,... | |
 | David Page - Geology - 1854 - 160 pages
...cretaceous system rather than to the base of the eocene tertiaries, Sir Charles Lyell remarks that " it often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is found in the Carpathians, and in full force in the north of Africa—as, for example,... | |
 | John Thomas Quekett - 1854 - 514 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa, it often attains a * Manual of Elementary Geology, 3rd Editiou, p. 234 . thickness of many thousand feet, and extends... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1855 - 700 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, >s, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced trom Egypt, where it was largely quarried... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1855 - 694 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a fir more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid t'ramework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried... | |
 | David Page - Geology - 1856 - 348 pages
...cretaceous system rather than to the base of the eocene tertiaries, Sir Charles Lyell remarks, that " it often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Apennines. It is found in the Carpathians, and in full force in the north of Africa—as, for example,... | |
 | Joseph Reay Greene - Protozoa - 1863 - 132 pages
...characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or...Carpathians, and is in full force in the North of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria or Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried... | |
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The nummulitic formation," says Lyell, "with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid frame-work of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of... 
