Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Volume 11

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Page 79 - Report of the Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1863 — 4.
Page 274 - Remarks in Explanation of the Map of the Upper Tertiaries of the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Hertford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Bedford, with Parts of those of Buckingham and Lincoln, and accompanying Sections.
Page 89 - AMONG the varied phenomena described and registered respecting the Malvern Hills in Prof. Phillips's admirable work in the ' Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain ' (vol. ii. part 1 ), I am not aware of any notice of the effect of injected and intersecting trap upon the syenite of which the great mass of the Malverns is composed. I had for some time been aware that greenstone and trap-dykes traversed syenite in a quarry worked between the Winds-point and the Obelisk, and to...
Page 168 - Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, in Cambridge, together with the Report of the Director, 1864.
Page 183 - ... heads; and on looking up, we saw an object falling down in a slanting direction. "We were frightened at its speed, which was so great that we could scarcely notice it ; but after it fell, we proceeded to look for it, and found it at a distance of forty yards, half buried in the ground, where it had struck the top of a potato drill.
Page 287 - Scrutineers retired, and on their return the result of the ballot for officers and council for the ensuing year, was declared as follows : Honorary President.—Arthur Farre, MD, FRS President.—J.
Page 113 - Murchison, in the 5th vol. of the "Transactions of the Geological Society...
Page 141 - ... if not all, of these species occur also in the Carboniferous Limestone. I have previously expressed the belief that the Irish Carboniferous Slate must be taken to be contemporaneous geologically with the Carboniferous Limestone. I now believe that the same classification will have to be extended to the Devonian beds when the Old Red Sandstone is detached from them. The hypothesis I propose will effect that for North Devon ; while for South Devon, although I have little personal acquaintance with...
Page 195 - ... climatal conditions. The Irish sea-bed, as shown by soundings made by Vidal (1830), and Hoskyn,* is in the form of a submarine plateau, extending from fifty to nearly two hundred miles into the Atlantic, with a depth rarely exceeding two hundred fathoms. Beyond the line circumscribed by this depth, the plateau suddenly ceases; its edge merges into a slope, which descends at a considerable angle, never stopping until the bottom of the great abyss of the Atlantic is reached, at a depth of from...

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