Other mountain masses might be mentioned, composed of horizontal strata of high antiquity, which contain fossil remains of animals wholly dissimilar from any now known to exist.
Like that, it is in horizontal strata, and exhibits sufficient evidence of being a continuation of the same stratum.
Horizontal strata of sandstone and coarse conglomerate are exposed on its sides, and the summit is capped by thin stratum of compact sandstone, surmounted by a bed of greenstone trap, or trappea porphyry.
The first examples I shall give are from tracts of horizontal strata.
But if the evidence of erosion be so conspicuous in regions composed of horizontal strata, it is not less so in countries where the rocks are inclined at various angles to the horizon.
It stands on the slope, and part of the summit of a broad hill, elevated about one hundred and fifty feet above the Mississippi, and having a deep primary soil resting on horizontal strata of compact and sparry limestone.
The bed of argil reposes onhorizontal strata of siliceous sandstone, and is overlaid by shell limestone.
Near the Platte this sandstone occurs in horizontal strata, sometimes divided by the beds of the streams, and forming low ridges parallel to the Rocky Mountains.
Between Loutre Island and Cote Sans Dessein compact limestone occurs, in horizontal strata, along the sides of the Missouri valley.
Horizontal strata of sandstone and compact lime stone, are disclosed in the cliffs on both sides the valley of the Missouri.
The soil is firm and gravelly, being based on horizontal strata of compact limestone, and fine argillaceous sandstone.
The continuation of those terraces on each side of the great flow of water formed tiers of red and black volcanic rock lying in horizontal strata so regular as to be not unlike a gigantic Etruscan amphitheatre.
Those red cylindrical towers stood all along the summit of the range--with immense square blocks of grey rock above them in horizontal strata.
The cliffs of Red Point partake of a reddish tinge and appear to be disposed nearly in horizontal strata.
Seeing the vertical strata in the bed of the river, I was desirous to know if those were immediately covered with the horizontal strata.
St Abb's Head and Fast Castle are head lands projecting into the sea, and are the bulwarks of this shore, which is embayed to the westward, where the sea preys upon the horizontal strata.
He has made use of two general observations; the first, that the earth is every where composed of matters which formerly were in a state of fluidity, transported by the waters, and deposited in horizontal strata.
They are all filled with the substance which surrounds them, whether found in horizontal strata or in perpendicular fissures, because both have been formed by the waters, although at different times and in different manners.
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