Thus the Bible represents plants only to have been created on the third day, and animals not till the fifth; and hence at least the lower half of the fossiliferous rocks ought to contain nothing but vegetables.
In the oldest fossiliferous rocks next to the Eozoic, which so far have afforded only Protozoa--e.
These oldest fossiliferous rocks may mark the commencement of animal life, but they testify nothing as to the existence or non-existence of a previous period of vegetation alone.
In the earliest fossiliferous rocks there seems to be good evidence that the dry land contemporary with the seas in which they were formed was of very small extent.
At the very beginning, then, of the fossiliferous series, the three lower sub-kingdoms exhibit species of their most elevated aquatic classes, though not of the very highest orders in those classes.
In Scripture the original prevalence of the ocean is distinctly stated, and all geologists are agreed that in the early fossiliferous periods the sea must have prevailed much more extensively than at present.
We may still admit that the lapse of time between the beginning and the first day may have been great; but we must emphatically deny that this interval corresponds with the time indicated by the series of fossiliferous rocks.
In the eastern parts of the chain the older fossiliferous rocks are recognised in similar positions, presenting signs of intense Plutonic action.
The Cruise of the Betsey; or, A Summer Ramble among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides.
With Rambles of a Geologist; or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland.
The name given by Sir Roderick Murchison to a vast series of fossiliferous strata, which lies between the non-fossiliferous slaty schists below and the old red sandstone above.
In general, we find very few fossils in the Gault in the Island, though it is very fossiliferous on the mainland at Folkestone.
The Archaean rocks are succeeded by the most ancient fossiliferous rocks, the great series called the Cambrian, because found, and first studied, in Wales.
If the pebbles agree generally in mineral character with the latter, we are then enabled to determine its relative age by knowing that of the fossiliferous strata associated with the conglomerate.
Fossiliferous Strata near intrusive Masses of Granite converted into Rocks identical with different Members of the metamorphic Series.
Murchison and Professor Sedgwick to marine fossiliferous strata which, in the south of England, occupy a similar position between the overlying coal and the underlying Silurian formations.
For reasons already stated, I proceed first to treat of the aqueous or fossiliferous formations considered in chronological order or in relation to the different periods at which they have been deposited.
Bristol area and only 165 in the forest, richly fossiliferous and famous for their bone bed.
Although each slab was cracked into many pieces, the sculptures themselves had suffered less injury than any others discovered in the same ruins, the hard fossiliferous limestone not having become calcined by the heat like the alabaster.
Returning to the great hall, from which this gallery led, I found on its western side three other entrances, corresponding with those on the southern, the centre formed by a pair of winged bulls in a fossiliferous limestone.
Some kinds of deposits are more often fossiliferous than others.
Seekers after fossils are rather prone to confine their attention to strata which are already known to be fossiliferousthan to pay much attention to those which have hitherto yielded no organic remains.
With respect to the absence offossiliferous formations beneath the lowest Silurian strata, I can only recur to the hypothesis given in the ninth chapter.
I believe that fossiliferous formations could be formed {301} in the archipelago, of thickness sufficient to last to an age as distant in futurity as the secondary formations lie in the past, only during periods of subsidence.
I allude to the manner in which numbers of species of the same group, suddenly appear in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks.
The accumulation of each great fossiliferous formation will be recognised as having depended on an unusual concurrence of circumstances, and the blank intervals between the successive stages as having been of vast duration.
On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the lowest known fossiliferous strata.
But the difficulty of understanding the absence of vast piles of fossiliferous strata, which on my theory no doubt were somewhere accumulated before the Silurian epoch, is very great.
In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.
Taking these as data, the {539} proportionate change of the species of mollusca affords a means of arriving at the whole lapse of time represented by the fossiliferous rocks; and these two estimates agree in the order of their magnitudes.
Two such beds offossiliferous limestone are exposed on Fossil Hill.
In the upper part, ranging from 50 feet above the base to the top, are lenticular beds of fossiliferous limestone 1 inch to 4 feet thick.
Each animal, in proportion to its size, is found to retain, as in the fossiliferous spindles of the Old Red Sandstone, its coherent nodule around it.
They spent the day among its richly fossiliferous shales and limestones, and brought back with them in the evening, Ammonites and Gryphites enough to store a museum.
With Rambles of a Geologist; or, Ten Thousand Miles over theFossiliferous Deposits of Scotland.
The fossiliferous beds occur a few hundred yards below the dwelling-house of Rose Farm.
Elgin, one of the finest of our northern towns, occupies the centre of a richly fossiliferous district, which wants only better sections to rank it among the most interesting in the kingdom.
The whole series of fossiliferous stratified rocks must be referred to the last two days; and neither the Carboniferous, nor any other, formation can afford evidence of the work of the third day.
Not only is there this objection to any attempt to establish a harmony between the Miltonic account and the facts recorded in the fossiliferous rocks, but there is a further difficulty.
But there is absolutely no fossiliferous formation in which the remains of aquatic animals are absent.
The slates are probably Silurian, thefossiliferous limestones are known Carboniferous, and the sandstones are Tertiary grading up to Pleistocene.
The lowermost beds, as at Pongo de Mainique, are dominantly marine, fossiliferous limestone beds having a thickness estimated to be over two miles.
At 1, in a tributary gorge, fossiliferous clay occurs at 800 feet elevation above the sea.
In the first place, it does not follow that because we have a tolerably complete record of the succession of geological formations, we have therefore any correspondingly complete record of their fossiliferous contents.
The larger portion of the earth's surface is buried beneath the sea; and much the larger portion of the fossiliferous deposits on shore are no less hopelessly buried beneath the land.
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