| Geological Society of London - 1851 - 690 Seiten
...encroachment of deltas on one side and the overflowing of the land in other directions; the buildingsnowseen under water while others are above the sea-level,...freshwater shells are of living species, we find no human bones or articles fabricated by man ; nor in the elevated tufaceous strata near Naples, or the raised... | |
| Geological Society of London - 1851 - 678 Seiten
...led by MM. Murchison and Pe Verneuil, of the vast extent ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. Ixxi of a marine or brackish-water Aralo-Caspian limestone...freshwater shells are of living species, we find no human bones or articles fabricated by man ; nor in the elevated tufaceous strata near Naples, or the raised... | |
| 1851 - 450 Seiten
...limestone hundreds of feet above the level of the Mediterranean, may encourage us to hope that we may w be able to find a geological date for the origin of...freshwater shells are of living species, we find no human bones or articles fabricated by man ; nor in the elevated tufaceous strata near Naples, or the raised... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 Seiten
...they inhabit, and aquatic species of higher antiquity than the lakes and seas which they now people. But so far as our interpretation of physical movements...number of species now our contemporaries on the earth, ard we may, therefore, ask whether his creation can be considered as one step in a supposed progressive... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 Seiten
...they inhabit, and aquatic species of higher antiquity than the lakes and seas which they now people. But so far as our interpretation of physical movements...even when compared to the larger number of species ncrw our contemporaries on the earth, and we may, therefore, ask whether his creation can be considered... | |
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