Red crag of Suffolk, marine shells, some of northern forms.
That the extinct fauna of Buenos Ayres and Brazil was very modern has been shown by its relation to deposits of marine shells, agreeing with those now inhabiting the Atlantic.
But a group of marine shells, indicating a still greater excess of cold, has been brought to light since 1860 by the Reverend Thomas Brown, from glacial drift or clay on the borders of the estuaries of the Forth and Tay.
A writer in Silliman's Journal, referring perhaps to the same cave, extends the number of mummies from a thousand to millions, and speaks of necklaces of marine shells.
Five varieties of marine shells, all from the gulf shores, have been examined, with pearls whose size and numbers prove that they are not of fresh-water origin.
Neither here nor in the neighboring country were there any marine shells, but merely layers of black coal.
When the wind blew from the southwest, the ships employed in the survey were obliged to quit their moorings; and when they returned, the new sand-banks in the delta were found covered over with a great abundance of marine shells.
At that period a very animated controversy sprang up in Italy, concerning the true nature and origin of marine shells, and other organized fossils, found abundantly in the strata of the peninsula.
These sands contain more than 300 species of marine shells, many of them peculiar, but others common to the underlying marine deposit (No.
At Claiborne in Alabama no less than four hundred species of marine shells, with many echinoderms and teeth of fish, characterize one member of this system.
This genus of marine shells, dwelling in holes formed in rocks, wood, &c.
The Rissoae are small white, marine shells, considered by some authors as resembling Melaniae, but placed by Sowerby near the Scalariae.
This is a genus of small, polished, marine shells.
As with the imitation of marine shells in clay, it is probable that in this bell we have a facsimile of a metal bell with which the ancient Tusayan people were undoubtedly familiar.
The absence of marine shells helps to this conclusion, and the nearest living analogues of some of the fishes are found in the fresh water of Africa and North America.
The officers of the Geological Survey some years ago observed the occurrence of 'obscure fragments of marine shells' in a deposit at Whalley, Lancashire, in which they could find only local rocks.
Marine shells occur in the Manx drift, but only in such situations as were reached by the ice-laden with foreign stones.
In the inside of it were a number of marine shells.
Scarcity of Marine Shells in Glacial Drift of Canada and the United States.
The raised beach, also containing a great number of marine shells of recent species, traced up to a height of 14 feet above the sea by Mr. W.
Great Submergence of Wales during the Glacial Period proved by Marine Shells.
Again, deluge-myths must have inevitably arisen from the presence of marine shells, fossil and recent, in many localities where they were too numerous to escape notice.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marine shells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
