 Dawson carefully examined the laminated material, and he found it to consist of the remains of an organism which grew in large sessile patches, increasing at the surface by the addition of successive layers of chambers separated by calcareous laminae....  The Intellectual Observer - Page 4561865Full view - About this book
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1906 - 642 pages
...order of forarninifera, and conceived that during life they were sessile by a broad base and "grew by the addition of successive layers of chambers separated by calcareous laminae but communicating with each other by canals or septal orifices sparsely and irregularly distributed."... | |
 | 1865 - 846 pages
...Canadian Geological Survey, it appears certain that these bodies were sessile by a broad base, and grew by the addition of successive layers of chambers, separated by calcareous laminae, but communicating with each other by canals or septal orifices sparsely and irregularly distributed.... | |
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