 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1893 - 348 pages
...in size.1 Darwin says that the coast beds of shells which run along hundreds of miles in Patagonia "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 part of its... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 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, i8o4.j GEOLOGY OF PATAGONIA. 174 sometimes even a foot in diameter. These beds are covered by others... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 pages
...accumulated in bays, here along hundreds of miles o coast we have one great deposit, including many tertiarj shells, all apparently extinct. The most 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... | |
 | 1909 - 574 pages
...appear to have accumutated 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 564 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... | |
 | William Alfred Hirst - 1910 - 470 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 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... | |
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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. 
