 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
 | Geological Society of London - 1880 - 892 pages
...the Atlantic is not merely a Chalk formation, but a continuation of the Chalk formation ; so //««' we. may be said to be still living in the Cretaceous epoch." On the merits of this quesxion I think it right to say 1 have no intention of expressing an opinion,... | |
 | 1870 - 958 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... | |
 | Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Council - 1870 - 342 pages
...periods), this mud being not merely a chalk formation, but the continuation of the chalk formation; so that we may be said to be still living in the cretaceous period." It is to some of the points of evidence in this direction that I wish to confine my remarks.... | |
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