The Physical Géology and Geography of Great Britain: A Course of Six Lectures ... in January and February 1863, Volume 2E. Stanford, 1863 - 145 pages |
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A. C. RAMSAY Alston Moor altered anticlinal basins bed of coal bed upon bed Britain by-and-bye Cambrian strata Carboniferous rocks lie central valley CHARING CROSS chemical Coal-fields Coal-measures contortions crystalline Deposition of Lead descending disturbance of strata EDWARD STANFORD ENGLAND AND WALES extremely denuded feldspar Firth of Clyde formation formed fossils GEOLOGICAL MAP geologists gneissic rocks Grampian mountains heat Highlands igneous rock inches Lammermuir and Moorfoot Lammermuir hills land Laurentian gneiss layers LECTURE limestone LONDON MAP OF ENGLAND map of Scotland mass of granite mermuir metamorphic rocks metamorphosed mica mica-schist minerals Mining District Murchison MYLNE Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone OLD THEORY oldest rocks originally PHYSICAL STRUCTURE quartz re-arrangement scenery Scottish shale Silurian rocks Silurian strata SIR RODERICK Sir William Logan softened stratified rocks STRUCTURE OF SCOTLAND surface Swaledale synclinal curve THEORY OF METAMORPHISM thousands of feet tion tract of country unconformably volcanic whence