 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...Boulonnois) about 200 English miles, and from north-west to south-east (from Whitchurch to Beauvais), about 220 miles, the depth or total thickness of the beds, where greatest, being about 2000 feet *. Now these phenomena most clearly indicate, that there was a constant supply in this region,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...of deposits of different ages, between the tertiary groups first known and the recent formations, so we may, perhaps, hereafter detect an equal, or even...the beds, where greatest, being about two thousand feet.f The general appearance of the clays and sands, and of the subordinate beds of limestone, grit... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 482 pages
...to extend from west to east (from Lulworth Cove to the boundary of the Lower Boulonnois), about 200 English miles ; and from north-west to south-east...thickness of the beds, where greatest, being about 2000 feet.* The general appearance of the clays and sands, and of the subordinate beds of limestone,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...to extend from west to east (from Lulworth Cove to the boundary of the Lower Boulonnois), about 200 English miles ; and from northwest to south-east (from...determined the species of organic remains that we recognise a discordance in character as great as might have been anticipated •when strata above and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 582 pages
...Boulonnois), about 200 English miles ; and from northwest to south-east (from Whitchurch toBeauvais), 220 miles; the depth or total thickness of the beds,...determined the species of organic remains that we recognise a discordance in character as great as might have been anticipated when strata above and... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...ascertained to extend from west to east about 200 English miles, and from northwest to southeast about 220 miles, the depth or total thickness of the beds, where greatest, being about 2000 feet. ( Fitton's Geology of Hastings, p. 58.) These phenomena clearly indicate, that there was... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1872 - 1478 pages
...ascertained to extend from west to east about 200 English miles, and from northwest to southeast about 220 miles, the depth or total thickness of the beds, where greatest, being about 2000 feet. (Fitton's Geology of Hastings, p. 58.) These phenomena clearly indicate that there was a... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1881 - 1486 pages
...ascertained to extend from west to cast about 200 English miles, and from northwest to southeast about 220 miles, the depth or total thickness of the beds, where greatest, beins; about 2000 feet. (Fittim's Gcolopy of Hastings, p. 58.) These phenomena clearly indicate that... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...ascertained to extend from west to east about 200 English miles, and from northwest to southeast about 220 miles, the depth or total thickness of the beds, where greatest, being about 2,000 feet. These phenomena clearly indicate that there was a constant supply in that region for a... | |
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These phenomena clearly indicate that there was a constant supply in that region, for a long period, of a considerable body of fresh water, such as might be supposed to have drained a continent or a large island, containing within it a lofty chaia... 