This deposit was of no great thickness, and has been since removed by the denuding agencies, whilst the silicified corals remain behind.
Since the massive basaltic rocks are exposed in all the deeper rock channels of these plains, it is apparent that the overlying submarine deposits can possess no great thickness.
The woody creepers, themselves covered by other creepers, were of great thickness: some which I measured were two feet in circumference.
If a dog is urged to the attack, its courage is instantly checked by a few drops of the fetid oil, which brings on violent sickness and running at the nose.
One which I shot at Monte Video weighed ninety-eight pounds: its length from the end of the snout to the stump-like tail, was three feet two inches; and its girth three feet eight.
The swarm having crossed the bare space, divided itself, and descended an old wall.
After the great earthquake of 1822 the springs ceased, and the water did not return for nearly a year.
If we ascend the basin of the Neckar, we find that it is filled with loess of great thickness, far above its junction with the Rhine.
The alluvial platforms during this day's journey were generally of great thickness.
Here masses of alluvial conglomerate of great thickness rested on the sides of the mountains, many hundred feet above the bed of the stream.
Where the snow accumulates to a great thickness, in the valleys, or in the deep fissures in the ground, it hardens under the influence of the pressure resulting from the incumbent weight.
In the Paris basin the Molasse presents, at its base, quartzose sands of great thickness, sometimes pure, sometimes a little argillaceous or micaceous.
It was defended by a single wall of great thickness, and twelve hundred feet long on the side facing the city, where the precipitous character of the ground was of itself almost sufficient for its defence.
The number of plates they tore from the temple of the Sun was seven hundred; and though of no great thickness, probably, they are compared in size to the lid of a chest, ten or twelve inches wide.
The walls were of great thickness, but low, seldom reaching to more than twelve or fourteen feet in height.
Towards the open country, it was more easy of approach; but there it was protected by two semicircular walls, each about twelve hundred feet in length, and of great thickness.
By these several means the superficial mould is prevented from accumulating to a great thickness; and a thick bed of mould checks in many ways the disintegration of the underlying rocks and fragments of rock.
When the rock to be sunk through is unstratified, or if stratified, when of great thickness, recourse must be had to the action of explosive agents.
By keeping back the sand by the use of piles--a resource that can only be recommended when the bed of sand is not of great thickness.
It will also appear, in the sequel, how much light the doctrine of a continued subsidence of land may throw on the manner in which a series of strata, formed in shallow water, may have accumulated to a great thickness.
This formation, which attains a great thickness in the valley of the Bormida, is probably one of the oldest Miocene groups hitherto discovered.
Although freshwater formations are often of great thickness, yet they are usually very limited in area when compared to marine deposits, just as lakes and estuaries are of small dimensions in comparison with seas.
The hypothesis least favorable for a great thickness is found to be that which assumes the pressure to produce no effect on the process of solidification.
The soil of that part of Calabria is composed chiefly, like the southern part of Sicily, of calcareo-argillaceous strata of great thickness, containing marine shells.
These strata are an example of a phenomenon often met with in geology,--that of a great thickness of deposits all laid down in shallow water.
The arch of chalk connecting our two ranges of downs has been cut through, and from the top of the downs themselves a great thickness of chalk has been removed.
Nothing is more remarkable in connection with these bodies than their uniformity of structure and form over so great areas and throughout so great thickness of rock, and the absence of any other kind of spore-case.
In like manner, in Brazil, according to Mr. Derby, these organisms are distributed over a wide area and throughout a great thicknessof shale holding Spirophyton, and apparently belonging to the Upper Erian.
Orton, and which extends, with a breadth of ten to twenty miles, and of great thickness, across the State of Ohio, for nearly two hundred miles.
The so-called Lower Green Sand, named in contradistinction to the Upper Green Sand, includes a series of iron stained sands, sandstones and clays of great thickness.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great thickness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
