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" The best Mammoth bones as well as the greatest number are found at a certain depth below the surface, usually in clay hills, more rarely in black earth. The more solid the clay, the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are... "
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 61
1907
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Narrative of an expedition to the polar sea, in 1820, 1821,1822 & 1823 ...

Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...mammoth-bones and pieces of whale-bone, but they were not in very good preservation.* * The best Mammoth-bones, as well as the greatest number, are found at a certain...the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher hills than along the low coast or...
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Elements of Geology: Intended for the Use of Students

Samuel St. John - 1851 - 370 pages
...sheep in such abundance that these animals must formerly have lived there in large herds. The best bones as well as the greatest number are found at...in black earth. The more solid the clay, the better are the bones preserved, and experience has shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher...
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Elements of Geology: Intended for the Use of Students

Samuel St. John - 1855 - 372 pages
...sheep in such abundance that these animals must formerly have lived there in large herds. The best bones as well as the greatest number are found at a certain depth Joelow the surface, usually in clay hills, more rarely in black earth. The more solid the clay, the...
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Advanced Text-book of Geology Descriptive and Industrial

David Page - 1867 - 488 pages
...abundantly in Siberia than in any other country, Von Wrangell has the following instructive remarks : — " The best mammoth bones, as well as the greatest number,...the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher hills than along the low coast or...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 27

1889 - 532 pages
...tundra, or flat, moss-covered waste, which forms the northern zone of Siberia. The traveller Wrangell says : ' The best mammoth bones, as well as the greatest...the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher hills than along the low coast or...
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Geological Magazine

Henry Woodward - 1880 - 650 pages
...merely found in the beds or on the banks of rivers, but in nearly all parts of the tundra. Thus Wrangell says — " The best Mammoth bones as well as the greatest...the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher hills than along the low coast or...
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Geological Magazine

Henry Woodward - 1880 - 636 pages
...merely found in the beds or on the banks of rivers, but in nearly all parts of the tundra. Thus Wrangell says — "The best Mammoth bones as well as the greatest...the better the bones are preserved. Experience has also shown that more are found in elevations situated near higher hills than along the low coast or...
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... Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1904: In Search of Mammoth and ...

Alfred Geddes Maddren - 1907 - 576 pages
...had viewed the phenomena personally he would have fully recognized this apparent fact. Wrangell ** says : " The best mammoth bones as well as the greatest...situated near higher hills than along the low coast or qn the flat tundra." The one point that appears to be a matter of unanimous agreement among those who...
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The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson

Byron Christopher Nelson - 1995 - 532 pages
...floods, more fossil remains of the same kind are invariably disclosed . . . Wrangell has said that the best mammoth bones, as well as the greatest number,...clay, the better the bones are preserved. Experience also has shown that more are found in elevations situated near high hills than along the low coast...
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