 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...might not be due to such river floods as we have witnessed in Scotland during the last half-century. It must have required a long period for the wearing...of so much gravel at various heights,-, sometimes 100 feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire... | |
 | 1864 - 764 pages
...any historical period with which weareacquainted. "It must have required," says Sir Charlei Lyell, " a long period for the wearing down of the chalk which supplied the broken il.ni(stones) for the formation of so much gravel at various heights, sometimes one hundred feet above... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...historical period with which we are acquainted. "It must have required," says Sir Charles Lyell, " a long period for the wearing down of the chalk which supplied the broken flints (stones) for the formation of so much gravel at various heights, sometimes one hundred feet above the... | |
 | 1859 - 532 pages
...compared to the times of history or tradition. I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin, but I could detect nothing in the structure of its several...sometimes one hundred feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic,... | |
 | 1859 - 552 pages
...must have required a long period for the wearing down of the cbnlk which supplied the broken fliuts for the formation of so much gravel at various heights,...sometimes one hundred feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic,... | |
 | 1860 - 512 pages
...compared to the times of history or tradition. I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin, but I could detect nothing in the structure of its several...formation of so much gravel at various heights, sometimes 100 feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment including entire... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 pages
...compared to the times of history and tradition. I consider the gravel to be of fluviatile origin ; but I could detect nothing in the structure of its several...formation of so much gravel at various heights, sometimes 100 feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire... | |
 | 1860 - 542 pages
...its several parts indicating catuclysmal action ; nothing that might not be due to such river-Hoods as we have witnessed in Scotland during the last half...sometimes one hundred feet above the present level of the Sommo; for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic ;... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...its several parts indicating cataclysmal action ; nothing that might not be due to such ri-er-floods as we have witnessed in Scotland during the last half...heights, sometimes one hundred feet above the present le-el of the Somme; for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...might not be due to such river-floods as we have witnessed in Scotland during the last halfcentury. It must have required a long period for the wearing...various heights, sometimes one hundred feet above the level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment including entire shells, both terrestrial and... | |
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... feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic, and also for the denudation which the entire mass of stratified drift has undergone : portions having been swept... 
