These seed-vessels were called, before their true nature was known, gyrogonites, and were supposed to beforaminiferous shells.
Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.
Defn: Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferousshell of the genus Nodosaria.
Although the ash itself contains no organic remains, there occur, not many hundred yards away and at an elevation 100 feet higher above the sea, foraminiferous tuffs of basic glass which are described below.
In their character they pass on the one hand into the foraminiferous volcanic mud-rocks or clay rocks and on the other into the tuff-breccias and tuff-agglomerates.
The testimony supplied by the interesting exposures on the slopes of Mount Thambeyu (page 178) goes to show that after the deposition of the foraminiferous tuffs and clays the stage of the agglomerates was ushered in gradually.
Agglomerates overlying palagonite-tuffs and clays, that are usually foraminiferous and sometimes inclose molluscan shells, clothe the slopes of these mountain-ridges up to elevations of 2,500 feet and over above the sea.
If reefs had been formed along those ancient coasts, or on the original shoals, they would have been in some cases preserved, as in the case of the foraminiferous tuffs and clays, by a covering of volcanic agglomerate.
By clambering up the steep slope on the south side of these cliffs, it will be observed that this thick bed of agglomerate is covered by bedded foraminiferous clays and tuffs similar to those that underlie it.
Geologists may look forward with the greatest interest to the results of the examination by Mr. Brady of the foraminiferousdeposits of the Western Pacific.
The islands formed mainly of the softforaminiferous deposits have long level summits free from peaks.
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