It is very true that, of the great quantity of fossil shells gathered in the different countries of the earth, there are yet but a very small number of species whose living or marine analogues are known.
Fossil Shells used as Ornaments, and found in the Gravel at Amiens.
Fossil Shells used as Ornaments, and found in the Gravel at Amiens 54 19.
Fossil shells, of forms such as now abound in the sea, are met with far inland, both near the surface, and at great depths below it.
Fossil shells in some modern deposits have been scarcely altered in the course of centuries, having simply lost a part of their animal matter.
For example, here we have a diagram representing a very unusually complete series of fossil shells, which within the last few years has been unearthed from the Tertiary lake basins of Slavonia.
The lake has long ago dried up; but its aqueous deposits are extraordinarily rich in fossil shells, especially of different species of the genus Planorbis.
The mud of rivers, he said, had covered and penetrated into the interior of fossil shells at a time when these were still at the bottom of the sea near the coast.
This work proves the continued ascendancy of dogmas often refuted; for we find the wit and eloquence of the author chiefly directed against the obstinate incredulity of naturalists as to the organic nature of fossil shells.
Some of the most important of Geological data are obtained by a minute comparison of fossil shells, found in various beds, with recent ones presenting the nearest resemblance to them.
This genus of fossil shells, found at various geological periods, from the Lias to the Baculite limestone in Normandy, is now extinct.
After the revival of learning the ancient problem presented by fossil shellsimbedded in the rocks of the interior of many countries received renewed attention.
He acutely argues, from the condition of fossil shells, that they must have lived and died where their remains are now found.
Herodotus, Eratosthenes, Strato and Strabo noted the vast quantities of fossil shells in different parts of Egypt, together with beds of salt, as evidence that the sea had once spread over the country.
The Italian painter Scilla produced in 1670 a Latin treatise on the fossils of Calabria, in which he established the organic nature of fossil shells.
The Meeting of the Clans At his parting from Willow-grouse, Fleetfoot gave her a necklace of fossil shells.
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