Compte rendu de la 4me session, Londres, 1888

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Сторінка 65 - better bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
Сторінка 407 - Generalizations respecting the Erratic Tertiaries or Northern Drift, founded on the Mapping of the Superficial Deposits of a large portion of Norfolk, with a Description of the Freshwater Deposits of the Gaytonthorpe Valley ; and a Note on the Contorted Strata of Cromer Cliffs — Journ.
Сторінка 56 - These changes have been supposed to be coeval and coextensive; but our investigations show they have not been so entirely. But we sometimes have the same fauna, or nearly the same, living under different circumstances, and, perhaps, also at different dates, in different parts of the world. So long as the geology of the United States, for instance, was known accurately in only one part (New York State) the faunal characters which the formations were found to exhibit were seen to be coincident with...
Сторінка 330 - A Description of the principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight.
Сторінка 121 - ... Congress. The corresponding chronological terms era and period are used. Formation is used as one of the members of a series, as quartzite formation or limestone formation of the Huronian series. The term " crystalline schist " is rigidly confined to rocks which have a " completely crystalline interlocked texture, which is possessed of a schistose parting due to a parallel or foliated arrangement of the mineral ingredients, or of aggregations of these ingredients.
Сторінка 68 - Taeonic is made coordinate with the term Cambrian, and they are both applied to well-known faunas, and also to the rocks containing those faunas, in accordance with the design of the authors of those terms. The scheme of Professor Newberry, while recommending the term Taconic for...
Сторінка 453 - This association, at the meeting in Buffalo in 1876, "appointed a committee" to consider the propriety of holding an International congress of geologists at Paris during the International exhibition of 1878, for the purpose of getting together comparative collections, maps and sections, and for the settling of obscure points, relating to geological classification and nomenclature. Through the efforts and influence of this committee a congress was held in Paris in 1878, at which representatives from...
Сторінка 455 - ... Lesley for the United States and Professor Selwyn for Canada, and for that on Geographical Nomenclature, Professor James Hall for the United States and Professor T. Sterry Hunt for Canada. Active preparations are already made in Great Britain and Germany for representation at the Bologna Congress. In view of the fact that the work of an International Geological Congress was initiated by this association, and that it promises to become of permanent and increasing importance, it is believed that...
Сторінка 33 - On the Position of the Chloritic Marl or Phosphate of Lime Bed in the Isle of Wight — Rep.
Сторінка 152 - Explorations on the West Coast of Florida, etc." (1887), the scheme here proposed would stand as follows : CLASSIFICATION AND RELATIONS OF THE TERTIARY GBOUP.

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