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Example sentences for "unfossiliferous"

Lexicographically close words:
unforseen; unfortified; unfortunate; unfortunately; unfortunates; unfounded; unframed; unfree; unfreedom; unfrequent
  1. In the seas of this epoch, therefore, only unfossiliferous strata were deposited.

  2. It is unfossiliferous except for a few obscure sheils obtained near the base.

  3. These sands have been called Upper Bagshot in the maps of our Government Survey, but this identification of a fossiliferous series in the Isle of Wight with an unfossiliferous formation in the London Basin can scarcely be depended upon.

  4. To his first fauna, which was older than any then known in this country, he gave the name of Etage C; his two first stages A and B consisting of crystalline and metamorphic rocks and unfossiliferous schists.

  5. They are interbedded with unfossiliferous sandstones and shales.

  6. Primary deposits are doubtfully represented by the detached fragments of unfossiliferous strata of Traras, Blida and east of Orleansville.

  7. In the first place, it is rash to assert that any deposit is unfossiliferous because no fossils have been found in it, even after prolonged search.

  8. The whole valley of the Amazon is covered with stratified and unstratified and unfossiliferous {p.

  9. No trace is left of their destructive powers, save the huge, unstratified, unfossiliferous deposits of clay and stones and bowlders, locked away between great layers of the sedimentary rocks.

  10. It was a coarse, unfossiliferous conglomerate, composed of angular pieces of shingle bound together by a hard but very scanty matrix.

  11. On the east side of Wolsey Sound the rock of the mountain masses is for the most part a hard grey unfossiliferous limestone, irregularly stratified, but sometimes showing a dip of 10 deg.

  12. Meanwhile, during the formation of the unstratified and unfossiliferous mass in deeper water, the smoothing and furrowing of shoals and beaches is still going on elsewhere upon and near the coast in full activity.

  13. Of younger date than the Mosbach Sands is another series of unfossiliferous gravels, which, like the older series, are charged with ice-floated erratics.

  14. The central plateau consists of ancient crystalline rocks with granites overlain by unfossiliferous sandstones and conglomerates considered to be of Palaeozoic age.

  15. The median zone is composed largely of crystalline rocks with granites and some Palaeozoic unfossiliferous rocks.

  16. But he found that the region was mainly a primary one, in which he could detect only a single patch of sedimentary rock, existing as an unfossiliferous sandstone.


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