Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight, and Along the Adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire; ...Henry G. Bohn, 1854 - 356 pages |
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abound Alum Bay appear Atherfield beds Bembridge Binstead Blackgang bones Brook Bay Brook Point calcareous chalk cliffs chalk downs character Chine coast Compton Bay Cove cretaceous cretaceous system Culver Cliff cycadeous Englefield eocene eocene strata exposed feet firestone Fitton flint fluviatile formation fossils freshwater shells galt genera Geol Geological greensand Headon Hill Hordwell iguanodon imbedded inches Island Isle of Purbeck Isle of Wight Kimmeridge layers lign lignite limestone London clay lower lowermost Lulworth Lulworth Cove mammalia marine marl masses Medals of Creation miles nodules numerous observed obtained oolite organic remains portion Portland Prestwich Purbeck quarries remarkable reptiles river rock Ryde sand Sandown Sandown Bay sandstone sea-shore Shanklin shore species specimens stems stone strata surface Sussex Swanage teeth thickness Tilgate Forest trees Undercliff upper vertebræ vertical waterworn Wealden Wealden deposits Wealden strata Webster Whitecliff Bay Wonders of Geology Worbarrow Worbarrow Bay
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Page 9 - of one class covered with the remains of another, and upon the graves of past generations—the marble or rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world—new generations rising, and order and harmony established, and a system of life and beauty produced out of chaos and death ; proving the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness of the
Page 151 - evidently originated in a raft composed of a prostrate pine-forest, transported from a distance by the river which flowed through the country whence the Wealden deposits were derived, and became submerged in the sand and mud of the delta, burying with it the bones of reptiles, mussel-shells, and other extraneous bodies it had gathered in its course.
Page 110 - Near this place, after recent slips of the cliff, and the removal of the fallen debris by the waves, the uppermost of the wealden deposits, and the lowermost of the greensand may be seen in juxta-position ; in other words, the line of demarcation between the accumulated sediments of a mighty river—some primeval Nile or Ganges,
Page xxiv - described by Sir Walter Scott, as " that beautiful Island, which he who once sees never forgets, through whatever part of the wide world his future path may lead him.
Page 87 - for its uncommon solidity ; for it is merely a submarine cliff of shingle, 200 feet high, the depth of the channel close to the castle being 33 fathoms ; and the tide flows through it with a rapidity which, at certain times, no boat can stem ; yet this natural breakwater has remained unmoved for
Page 101 - Westward, the hills follow each other, forming several intermediate and partial valleys, in undulations like the waves of the sea, and bending to the south, complete the boundary of the larger valley
Page 122 - sand and sandstone which alternate with ferruginous clays in this division of the greensand system, appear very prominent, owing to the wearing away of the soft and friable intermediate beds. As the face of the sandstone, after long exposure to the atmosphere, separates into square blocks, the appearance of the projecting bands of stone, which are from
Page xix - and have been himself warned by the hoarse and deep bellowings of the alligator from the dangerous vicinity of its retreat. Our fossil evidences supply us with ample materials for this most strange picture of the animal life of ancient Britain
Page 66 - mountain masses of the white chalk as to indicate their geological character, even when seen from a considerable distance. The first line of hills consists of freshwater strata, which are superimposed on the eocene marine deposits ; the distant range is part of the chain of chalk downs that traverses the island throughout its entire length, forming on the
Page v - That beautiful Island, which he who once sees never forgets, through whatever part of the wide world his future path may lead him.