 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 Quarterly Journal of Science - Page 2941871Full view - About this book
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1870 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 506 pages
...periods), this mud being not merely a chalk formation, but a. I continuation of the chalk formation ; so that we may be said to \ be still living in the cretaceous epoch." * With the earlier part of the preceding paragraph I partly agree, but from its concluding sentence... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1870 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1870 - 314 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 548 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... | |
 | 1870 - 694 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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