Here we may see vertical cliffs, sometimes 300 feet and more in height, exposed for a distance of fifty miles, at the base of which the chalk with flints crops out in nearly horizontal strata.
Although this is not strictly true, they make an approach to parallelism, for the same reason that sediment is usually deposited at first in nearly horizontal layers.
From the collar stricture there arise three divergent bristle-shaped spines, nearly horizontal, about half as long as the thorax.
Two sagittal feet much smaller, nearly horizontal, pyramidal (the caudal larger than the sternal foot).
Rings with few scattered thorns; four larger simple spines, nearly horizontal in the equatorial plane; two on the poles of the sagittal axis, two on the poles of the lateral axis.
As it is nearly horizontal, while the river descends it crops out at a continually increasing, but never at an inconvenient, height above the Monongahela.
The primary strata are characterized, moreover, by the nearly vertical or highly inclined position of their planes; the secondary lie for the most part in a nearly horizontal position.
The fault plane here is nearly horizontal, and the two formations, viewed from the valley, appear to succeed one another conformably.
One almost refuses to believe that the little outlier on the summit does not lie normally on the rocks below it, but on a nearly horizontal fault by which it has been moved into its place.
It is more or less irregular and broken, but sonearly horizontal that, after some prolonged examination of the data I have collected about the Matterhorn, I am at this moment in doubt which is its top.
In like manner, as we shall see hereafter, the most wonderful peak in the whole range of the Alps seems to have been cut out of a series of nearly horizontal beds, as a square pillar of hay is cut out of a half-consumed haystack.
In like manner, the Matterhorn is cut out of a block of nearly horizontal beds of gneiss.
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