 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...Latin for cinders. SEAWS. Thin layers which separate two strata of greater magnitude. SECONDARY STRATA. An extensive series of the stratified rocks which...third series above them called tertiary. See vol. iii. p. 324, and Table II. p. 390. SECULAR REFRIGERATION. The periodical cooling and consolidation... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...Latin for cinders. SEAMS. Thin layers which separate two strata of greater magnitude. SECONDARY STRATA. An extensive series of the stratified rocks which...third series above them called tertiary. See vol. iii. p. 324, and Table II. p. 390. SECULAR REFRIGERATION. The periodical cooling and consolidation... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...Latin for cinders. SEAMS. Thin layers which separate two strata of greater magnitude. SECONDARY STRATA. An extensive series of the stratified rocks which...series above them called tertiary. See Vol. IV. p. 281., and Table I. Vol. IV. p. 308. SECULAR REFRIGERATION. The periodical cooling and consolidation... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - Geology - 1836 - 552 pages
...slate. Seams. — Thin layers which separate two strata of greater magnitude. Secondary Strata. — An extensive series of the stratified rocks which...and from a third series above them called tertiary. Sedimentary Jtocks, are those which have been formed by their materials having been thrown down from... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - Geology - 1836 - 686 pages
...mineral nature. Seams. Thin layers which separate two strata of greater magnitude. Secondary Strata. An extensive series of the stratified rocks which...and from a third series above them called tertiary. Shale. A. provincial term, adopted by geologists, to express an indurated slaty clay. Etym. German... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - Geological surveys - 1836 - 174 pages
...aggregated grains of sand. Saurians. Animals belonging to the lizard tribe. Schist. Slate. Secondary Strata. "An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which...from another series below them, called primary, and another above them, called tertiary." Seams. "Thin layers which separate strata of greater magnitude."... | |
 | geologocal survey of pennsylvania - Geology - 1838 - 446 pages
...two strata of greater magnitude. Secondary Strata. An extensive series of the stratified rocks whiut compose the crust of the globe, with certain characters...which distinguish them from another series below them, willed primary, and from a third series above them called tertiary. Skalr.. A provincial term, adopted... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1839 - 584 pages
...tribe. Schist. Slate. Seams. "Thin layers which separate strata of greater magnitude." Secondary Strata. "An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which...from another series below them, called primary, and another above them, called tertiary." Sedimentary Rocks — Are those which have been formed by their... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1839 - 910 pages
...magnitude." Secondary Strata. " An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which compose the crust i;f the globe, with certain characters in common, which...from another series below them, called primary, and another above them, called tertiary." Sedimentary Rocks — Are those which have been formed by their... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Michigan - 1839 - 910 pages
...Schist. Slate. Seams. " Thin layers which separate strata of greater magnitude." Secondary Strata. " An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which compose the crust of the globe, wiih certain characters in common, which distinguish them from another series below them, called primary,... | |
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An extensive series of the stratified rocks, which compose the crust of the globe, with certain characters in common, which distinguish them from another series below them, called primary, and another above them, called tertiary. 
