Consequently all the petrifactions found in the neptunic stratifications of the earth's crust comprise altogether but a very few forms, and of these for the most part only isolated fragments.
The rocks found in this part of the country are principally sandstone and limestone, in stratifications nearly horizontal, with occasional beds of clay slate.
It appears to be of limestone formation, with regular stratifications dipping to the southward at an angle of 6 deg.
The formation of the land around Dobbin Bay appeared curiously contorted; the stratifications dipping, in some places, to the westward at an angle of about 18 deg.
The land appeared quite bare of vegetation, and bore a strong resemblance to the Silurian limestone formation of the land about Prince Regent Inlet, showing stratifications dipping to the northward at an angle of about 6 deg.
Its stratifications are very indistinct compared to those of the gray sandstone, and like them disposed horizontally.
Its stratificationsare so little inclined, that their dip cannot be estimated by the eye.
Its prevailing colours are grey or yellowish white; its stratifications distinct; and its cement often argillaceous.
Though the stratifications of this sparry limestone are horizontal, the rock is little divided by seams and fissures, and would undoubtedly afford a valuable marble, not unlike the Darling marble quarried on the Hudson.
These tracts are denominated tabular, not from any flatness of surface by which they are characterized, but from their appearance at a distant view, and from the horizontal disposition of the stratifications imbedded in them.
It is for the most part distinctly stratified, and in all cases its stratifications are inclined.
The country about the sources of this river is mountainous, being broken into numerous irregular peaks and ridges, of an old ferruginous sandstone, with its stratifications highly inclined towards the south.
It does this by its admission of definite stratifications of nature which are disclosed by the very character of our knowledge of it.
Some criticisms on 'The Principles of Natural Knowledge' show that difficulty has been found in apprehending durations as real stratifications of nature.
Furthermore the admission ofstratifications of nature bears on the formulation of the laws of nature.
Traveling along this river a close observer will be struck by the exactness of the stratifications in the rock and in the coal beds to be seen on each side of the river.
The science that deals with the formations and stratifications that are found on the earth and under the earth, and all the forces that have been and are now active in their formation, is called Geology (earth science).
When the upheaval took place the old stratifications were thrown out of level, but the new ones that were then formed remained in a level position until they were in their turn disturbed by some subsequent upheaval.
Whatever signs of life are found in these lowerstratifications are of the very lowest order.
This is evidenced not only by the stratifications themselves, but by the evidences of sea-life everywhere present in the earth's crust.
These researches shed light on the stratifications of rocks often folded under extreme pressure as if rubber or paste.
A botanist, keenly alive to varieties of hue, of form in leaves, tendrils, and petals may not give a second glance to stratifications which rivet the gaze of a geologist for hours together.
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