But the chief freight was lime from La Bajada, which was burned in the kilns on the Barranca, at the outcrops of the beds of conchiferous limestone.
It is composed of clays and of beds of conchiferous terrestrial limestone, which have supplied the lime-kilns for more than a century.
On the causes of the absence of recentconchiferous deposits on the coasts of South America.
Considering these facts, it ceases, I think, to be surprising, that extensive recent conchiferous deposits are entirely absent on the southern and western shores of America.
Can any light be thrown on this remarkable absence of recent conchiferous deposits on these coasts, on which, at an ancient tertiary epoch, strata abounding with organic remains were extensively accumulated?
On the causes of the absence of recent conchiferous deposits on the coast of S.
The discussion referred to ("Geological Observations on South America," 1846) deals with the causes of the absence of recent conchiferous deposits on the coasts of South America.
Absence of extensive modern Conchiferous Deposits in South America; and on the contemporaneousness of the older Tertiary Deposits at distant points being due to contemporaneous movements of subsidence.
This animal resides within two small valves, not unlike those of a bivalve shell, and moults its integuments periodically, which theconchiferous mollusks do not.
The animal resides within two small valves, not unlike those of a bivalve shell, and moults its integuments annually, which the conchiferous mollusks do not.
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