Marl. The edge of the chalk in this district, instead of forming large, rounded, prominent hills, as in Yorkshire, and several parts of Lincolnshire, appears as a thin nearly horizontal bed, spread over the inferior strata, and capping the hills, of which... Note-book of an Amateur Geologist - Page 10by John Edward Lee - 1881 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1837 - 678 pages
...horizontal lines signify what is provincially called "grey stone." The diagonal lines are green sand and sandstone ; and the space covered with dotted...to the rise of the chalk, at the distance of about 7 miles ; in several of them, for a considerable distance, the chalk has been denuded, and the bottom... | |
| 1837 - 738 pages
...hills, of which it forms but an inconsiderable portion. 1W the distance of about a mile or a mile and n half from the outcrop, it forms a platform, nearly...to the rise of the chalk, at the distance of about 7 miles ; in several of them, for a considerable distance, the chalk has been denuded, and the bottom... | |
| George Payne Rainsford James - 1847 - 426 pages
...minute or two, while the fishermen laboured away, making no very great progress against the wind. At the distance of about a mile or a mile and a half from the shore, Lennard Sherbrooke turned round towards the man who was steering, and made some remarks upon... | |
| United States. Naval War Records Office - 1902 - 908 pages
...line of embankment about 6 feet in height, fronted by a ditch. The road pierced this embankment at a distance of about a mile or a mile and a half from the city, as nearly as 1 could judge. I did not observe any cannon mounted here, but others say that they... | |
| Harry Delacombe - 1909 - 378 pages
...pilot, however, thought otherwise, and the balloon was sent on her journey without alteration. At a distance of about a mile or a mile and a half from the starting-point, the " Conqueror " had attained an altitude of probably 4000 feet, when several of us... | |
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