Agricultural GeologyMethuen & Company, 1903 - Всего страниц: 318 |
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accordingly accumulations acid angle anticline beds beneath calcareous Cambrian Carboniferous chalk characters clay colour considerable consist constituents corals corrasion Cretaceous Crown 8vo crystalline crystals Demy 8vo denudation deposits Devonian direction district E. V. LUCAS escarpment fault Fcap felspar fissure folds formed fossils fragments frequently Gault geological give rise glacial glacier granite Greensand ground horizontal igneous rocks Illustrated important inclined Jurassic Lake land limestone Little Library Lower marl mass material metamorphic mica mineral newer nodules occupied occur Old Red Sandstone Oolite Ordovician orthoclase outcrop owing particles Permian phosphate plagioclase planes of stratification Pott 8vo quartz represented river sand sandstones schists Scotland Second Edition sediments shown in Fig side silicate Silurian slates slope soil solid rocks spoken strata stream student surface termed Tertiary thickness tion tracts transport Triassic trilobites true dip unconformity Upper usually valley varying vertical weathering Yorkshire
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