He eventually made out the order of the several formations there, with their vast intercalations of volcanic material.
Of special interest to the geologist are those volcanoes which have taken their rise on the sea-bottom; for the volcanic intercalations among the stratified formations of the earth's crust are almost entirely of submarine origin.
Again, the same series of primeval sediments includes intercalations of fine silt, which has been deposited as regularly and intermittently there as it has been among the most recent formations.
Therefore, events which fall on the 29th of February cannot be celebrated annually, but only quadrennially; and at the close of those centuries in which the intercalations are suppressed only octennially.
Had the intercalations been regularly made the concurrence of the solar and the civil year would have been preserved very nearly.
The third, 8/33, gives eight intercalations in thirty-three years or seven successive intercalations at the end of four years respectively, and the eighth at the end of five years.
It has already been mentioned that the error of the Julian year was corrected in the Gregorian calendar by the suppression of threeintercalations in 400 years.
They consist of dark grey and cream-coloured flagstones, sometimes thick-bedded with grey and blue shales and thin limestones and occasional intercalations of sandstone.
Hence there will be passages from till, as it is called in Scotland, to stratified clay, gravel, and sand, and intercalationsof one in the other.
Their traditions told that he had dwelt among them twenty years, and had taught them to cast metals, ordered fasts, and regulated the intercalations of the Tolteck year.
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