. Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments. Geology. Portion of a fossil fruit of Podocarya, magnified. (BucMand's Bridgew. Treat., pi. 63.) Inferior Oolite, Charmouth, Dorset. Cone of fossil Araucaria. Inferior Oolite. Bruton, Somersetshire. â¢Â§â diam. of original. In the collection of the British Museum. The Stonesfield slate, in its range from Oxfordshire to the northeast is represented by flaggy and fissile sandstones, as at Collyweston in Northamptonshire, where, according to the researches of Messrs. Ibbet- son
. Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments. Geology. Portion of a fossil fruit of Podocarya, magnified. (BucMand's Bridgew. Treat., pi. 63.) Inferior Oolite, Charmouth, Dorset. Cone of fossil Araucaria. Inferior Oolite. Bruton, Somersetshire. â¢Â§â diam. of original. In the collection of the British Museum. The Stonesfield slate, in its range from Oxfordshire to the northeast is represented by flaggy and fissile sandstones, as at Collyweston in Northamptonshire, where, according to the researches of Messrs. Ibbet- son and Morris,f it contains many shells, such as Trigonia angzdata, also found at Stonesfield. But the Northamptonshire strata of this age assume a more marine character, or appear at least to have been formed farther from land. They enclose, however, some fossil ferns, such as Pecopteris polypodioides, of species common to the oolites of the Yorkshire coast, where rocks of this age put on all the aspect of a true coal-field; thin seams of coal having actually been worked in them for more than a century. * Owen's Paleontology, 2d ed., p. 348. f Ibbetson and Morris, Keport of Brit. Ass., 1847, p. 131 ; and Morris, Geol Journ., ix. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875. New York, D. Appleton and co.
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