 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - Počet stránok 686
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...testacea were unquestionably inhabitants of salt water. Before these events, comprising the conversion of a wide area from a sea to a continent, England had... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - Počet stránok 694
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...the sea prevailed where these chains now rise, for iniiumulites and their accompanying testacea were unquestionably inhabitants of salt water. Before... | |
 | David Page - 1856 - Počet stránok 348
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...testacea were unquestionably inhabitants of salt water. Before these events, comprising the conversion of a wide area from a sea to a continent, England had... | |
 | 1859 - Počet stránok 914
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...no existence till after the middle Eocene period.'' — Manual, p. 232. A still more marked case follows on the next page, where, because a certain bed... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - Počet stránok 388
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...no existence till after the middle Eocene period." — Manual, p. 232. A still more marked case follows on the next page. Because a certain bed at Claiborne... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - Počet stránok 400
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...existence till after the middle Eocene period."— Manual, p. 232. A still more marked case follows on the next page. Because a certain bed at Claiborne... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - Počet stránok 510
...Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummnlitic strata enter bodily, could have had no existence till after the middle Eocene period." — Manual, p. 232. A still more marked case follows on the next page. Because a certain bed at Claiborne... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1865 - Počet stránok 830
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...testacea were unquestionably inhabitants of salt water. Before these events, comprising the conversion of a wide area from a sea to a continent, England had... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - Počet stránok 910
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and loftiest parts the nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...the sea prevailed where these chains now rise, for numNummulites exponent. Sow. Europe and Asia. rnulites and their accompanying testacea were unquestionably... | |
 | Louis Figuier - 1866 - Počet stránok 542
...the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into the composition of whose central and lofticst parts the Nummulitic strata enter bodily, could have...no existence till after the middle eocene period." In England the mottled clay of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is often seen in contact with the chalk,... | |
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... struck with the comparatively modern date to which some of the greatest revolutions in the physical geography of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa must be referred. All the mountain chains, such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, and Himalayas, into... 
