Introduction to Geology - Hardcover

Bakewell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0405104316 ISBN 13: 9780405104312

Publisher: Ayer Co Pub, 1978

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...and land shells, similar to what are found in the neighboring marshes; they belong to a small number of genera or species, being chiefly lymnites, planorbi, turbinated shells, (allied to cerithea,) cyclostomac, and helices. Having described the tertiary strata round Paris and London, I shall proceed to the tertiary strata in the Isle of Wight, which contain many beds that are wanting in the London strata. The formations of the north of France and of England, do not, as it was once imagined, compose the whole of the tertiary deposits, but only the lower and middle parts. A brief account of the tertiary formations in other countries, will be subsequently given. For the first accurate account of the tertiary strata in England, we are indebted to Mr. Webster, who published in vol ii. of the Transactions of the Geological Soeiety of London, a description of these strata in the Isle of Wight, and their connexion with the subjacent chalk. The chalk covered by the London clay, passes under the channel, called the Solent, and rises in the middie of the island, forming a range of hills which extends from Culver Cliffs on the east, to the Needles on the west. Here we meet with a remarkable derangement of the beds of chalk, and of the superior strata; part of the strata of this jange of hills are throwninto a position nearly vertical, from the western to the eastern side of the island, evincing the action of a mighty disturbing force--a force which can be so often observed to have broken or upheaved the secondary and tertiary strata, in the vicinity of the Alps. Evidence of the same dislocation of the strata, extends from the Isle of Wight into Dorsetshire. The whole thickness of the beds at Alum Bay, in the Isle of Wight, which are nearly vertical, according to Mr. We...

Edition details

• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0405104316
• ISBN 13: 9780405104312
• Binding: Hardcover