 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 396 pages
...appear to have accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles of coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive, gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter. These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...all apparently extinct. The most common shell is a massive, gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter. The beds composing this formation, are...composed, to at least one-tenth of its bulk, of Infusoria ; and Professor Ehrenberg has already recognised in it thirty marine forms. This bed, which extends... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 550 pages
...Patagonia, says ; " Here along the coast for hundreds of miles, we have our great tertiary formation, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive, gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter. The beds composing this formation, are covered by others of a peculiar soft... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 pages
...Patagonia, says : " Here along the coast, for hundreds of miles, we have our great tertiary formation, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....composed, to at least one-tenth of its bulk, of Infusoria ; and Professor Ehrenberg has already recognised in it thirty marine forms. This bed, which extends... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 200 pages
...events." Lying upon and filling up depressions or basins of the chalk, is our great tertiary formation, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive gigantic oyster, sometimes over a foot in diameter. The beds comprising this formation are covered by others of a peculiar soft... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1871 - 170 pages
...described by Darwin : " Here along the coast for hundreds of miles, we have one great tertiary formation, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive, gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter. The beds composing this formation are covered by others of a peculiar, soft,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 552 pages
...appear to have accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles of coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct...The most common shell is a massive gigantic oyster. Hometimcs even a foot in diameter. These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone,... | |
 | Titus Coan - 1880 - 346 pages
...appear to have accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles of coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive gigantic oyster, sometimes over a foot in diameter. These beds are covered by others of a peculiar white stone including much... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pages
...appear to have accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles of coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive \ gigantic oyster, sometimes even a foot in diameter. These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including... | |
 | John Richards Philpots - 1890 - 704 pages
...events." Lying upon and filling up depressions or basins of the chalk, is our great tertiary formation, including many tertiary shells, all apparently extinct....common shell is a massive gigantic oyster, sometimes over a foot in diameter. The beds comprising this formation are covered by others of a peculiar soft,... | |
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These beds are covered by others of a peculiar soft white stone, including much gypsum, and resembling chalk, but really of a pumiceous nature. It is highly remarkable, from being composed, to at least one-tenth of its bulk, of Infusoria. 
