 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...shield, and Trnpov, pteron, a wing. CONGENERS. Species which belong to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock, or pebbles,...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., Con, together, glomero, to heap. CONIFER*. An... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...inferior set c, d ; but c, d rest unconformahly on E. CONGENERS. Species which belong to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE OR PUDDINGSTONE. Rounded water-worn fragments...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., con, together, glomero, to heap. CONIFERS. An... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...inferior set c, d ; but c, d rest unconformably on E. CONGENERS. Species which belong to the same genus, CONGLOMERATE OR PUDDINGSTONE. Rounded water-worn fragments...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., con, together, glomero, to CONIFERJB. An order... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - Geology - 1836 - 686 pages
...containing coal may be said to be carboniferous. Etym. carbo, coal, and/ero, to bear. Chert. A. siliceous mineral, nearly allied to calcedony and flint, but...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym. con, together, glomero, to heap. Crop Out. A miner's... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - Geology - 1836 - 552 pages
...constituent part of a group of strata. Conformable. — When the planes of one set of strata are generalry" parallel to those of another set which are in contact,...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Conifera. — An order of plants which, like the fir... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...belong to one genus. CONGERIES (Lat.) ; a heap or pile. CONGLOMERATE (con, together ; glomero, to heap); rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous or argillaceous nature. This is locally termed " pudding stone." CONIFER (conus, a cone ;... | |
 | Basil Hall - Europe - 1841 - 880 pages
...to signify that the " formation " so called, consisted of " Rounded water- worn fragments of rocks or pebbles, cemented together by another mineral substance,...a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature," — in other words, of a flinty, an effervescent, or of a muddy character. To which definition, for... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1847 - 434 pages
...genus. CONGLOMERATE, or PUDDING-STONE. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebb'es, ceme•ited together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous, nr argillaceous nature. Etym., con, together, glomero, to heap. CONIFBRA. An order of plants, which,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1848 - 186 pages
...felspathic rock of the trap family, usually fissile: — sonorous when struck. CONGLOMERATE (Pudding stone). Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be either siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous. COMB. A valley on the declivity of a hill ; generally... | |
 | John Anderson - Geology - 1851 - 388 pages
...unconformable. CONGENERS. Species belonging to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE or PUDDINGSTONE. A rock made up of rounded waterworn fragments of rock or pebbles cemented together by another mineral substance. CONIFERJE. Trees that bear cones, as the pine. COPROLITE. The fossil remains of excrement. COSMICAL.... | |
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Conglomerate or Puddingstone. — Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented together by another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. 
