The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volumes 93-94S. Converse, 1867 - Science |
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... limestone which is used for burning into lime and for building purposes . Thick beds of this chalk present a marked rust color from the presence of a greater or less amount of the peroxyd of iron ; otherwise it could hardly be distin ...
... limestone which is used for burning into lime and for building purposes . Thick beds of this chalk present a marked rust color from the presence of a greater or less amount of the peroxyd of iron ; otherwise it could hardly be distin ...
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... limestones of the upper Coal Meas- ures are exposed at Omaha City , and continue up the Missouri river to a point near De Soto , almost twenty miles farther , where they pass from view beneath the bed of the river . Overlapping them is ...
... limestones of the upper Coal Meas- ures are exposed at Omaha City , and continue up the Missouri river to a point near De Soto , almost twenty miles farther , where they pass from view beneath the bed of the river . Overlapping them is ...
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... limestone ; and observed the fact , ignored again by some subsequent writers on the subject , that the matrix of Zeuglodon bones always lies below the true Orbitoides limestone . The Vicksburg and Jackson groups . In most respects , the ...
... limestone ; and observed the fact , ignored again by some subsequent writers on the subject , that the matrix of Zeuglodon bones always lies below the true Orbitoides limestone . The Vicksburg and Jackson groups . In most respects , the ...
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... limestone . Nowhere in Mississippi has a single Orbitoid been found associated with either the Zeuglo- don , or any of the characteristic fossils of the Jackson group . It is quite possible that in Alabama , Zeuglodon bones may have ...
... limestone . Nowhere in Mississippi has a single Orbitoid been found associated with either the Zeuglo- don , or any of the characteristic fossils of the Jackson group . It is quite possible that in Alabama , Zeuglodon bones may have ...
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... limestone is mentioned as forming knolls , hill - tops- the Zeuglodon as being found in level fields , or in ravines . The true position of the Zeuglodon bed did not , however , escape the glance of Lyell ( On the Nummulite Limestone of ...
... limestone is mentioned as forming knolls , hill - tops- the Zeuglodon as being found in level fields , or in ravines . The true position of the Zeuglodon bed did not , however , escape the glance of Lyell ( On the Nummulite Limestone of ...
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