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" Carpenter is in one sense justified in the proposition, that we may be said to be still living in the cretaceous period. The chalk formation has been going on over some part of the North Atlantic seabed, from its first commencement to the present day,... "
The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and ... - Page 356
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Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange ..., Volume 5

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1870 - 316 pages
...floor of the North Atlantic, off the Faroe Islands), " This mud being not merely a chalk formation, but the chalk formation, so that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous epoch." (Fide Report on Dredging in last number of Proceedings of Royal Society.) On reading the above, I looked...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 17

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pages
...Me'moires pour scrvir K la connaissance des Crinoides vivants," by Prof. Sars (Christiania, 1868). formation ; so that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous Epoch*. VIII. It can be scarcely necessary to point out in detail those various important applications of the...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 17

Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pages
...pour servir a la counaissance des Crinoides vivants," by Prof. Sars (Ch<isliania, 1868). formation i so that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous Epoch *. VIII. It can be scarcely necessary to point out in detail those various important applications of...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 5

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...Geological periods), this mud being not merely a Chalk-formation, but a continuation of the Chalkformation ; so that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous Epoch. For, as was pointed out by Professor Wyville Thomson, in the letter which gave occasion to the ' Lightning...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 3

1870 - 934 pages
...continuation of the chalk formation; * " Trans. Phil. Soc., Manchester," Vol. viii, fig. 71. so that we inay be said to be still living in the cretaceous epoch."*...dissent. Chalk chiefly consists of an accumulation of Globigeriiia cretacea, associated in almost equal proportions with a miuute Textillaria and with Coccoliths....
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1870 - 314 pages
...of which carry us back to the cretaceous epoch, containing many species hitherto considered extinct, so that we may be said to be still living in the cretaceous epoch ; that henceforth no valid inference can bo drawn from either the absence or scantiness of organic...
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1870 - 326 pages
...of which carry us back to the cretaceous epoch, containing many species hitherto considered extinct, so that we may be said to be still living in the cretaceous epoch ; that henceforth no valid inference can be drawn from either the absence or scantiness of organic...
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Nature, Volume 2

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 596 pages
...but we can, at the same time, feel that Dr Carpenter is in one sense justified in the proposition, that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous period. The chalk formation has been going on over some part of the North Atlantic sea-bed from its...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1870 - 500 pages
...but we can, at the same time, feel that Dr. Carpenter is in one sense justified in the proposition, that we may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous period. The chalk formation has been going on over some part of the North Atlantic sea-bed, from its...
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art ..., Volume 6

1870 - 612 pages
...Atlantic Ocean, has been heartily embraced by many of the leading geologists and naturalists of Europe. " We may be said to be still living in the cretaceous epoch," says Dr. Thompson ; and Dr. Carpenter approves the statement, and declares that " the idea is one which...
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