Geological Magazine

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Henry Woodward
Cambridge University Press, 1912

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Page 268 - Chessy deposits, that is, in a quartzose rock scattered in nuggets varying from the size of a pea to that of a walnut. All the ores carry, besides iron and silica, a small percentage of manganese and alumina, together with an amount of zinc varying from two to eight per cent.
Page 195 - On Fossil Cycadean Stems from the Secondary Rocks of Britain. Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi. pp. 675-708, pi.
Page 143 - On the Sources of the Materials composing the "White Clays of the Lower Tertiaries...
Page 116 - Sernander: Die schwedischen Torfmoore als Zeugen postglazialer Klimaschwankungen. (Die Veränderungen des Klimas seit dem Maximum der letzten Eiszeit.
Page 344 - Notes on Stone Implements from Otaru and Hakodate, with a few general remarks on the Prehistoric Remains of Japan,
Page 148 - ... of analogy with that of South Africa and India. In the present condition of our knowledge of the geology of the State, it is almost impossible to deal systematically with the various formations as a whole, for, owing to a variety of causes, geological inquiry up to the present has consisted merely of a series of unconnected observations, to the co-ordination of which we must look to the future ; nevertheless our observations have been so widely extended as to permit of certain broad generalisations.
Page 24 - A HISTORY OF THE FOSSIL INSECTS IN THE SECONDARY ROCKS OF ENGLAND. Accompanied by a Particular Account of the Strata in which they occur, and of the circumstances connected with their preservation.
Page 47 - On the Vegetation of the Carboniferous Period as compared with that of the present day," published in 1848, was an important contribution to the science.
Page 379 - On the limiting strength of rocks under conditions of stress existing in the earth's interior: Jour.
Page 281 - FRS, President, in the chair. — The President announced that the Council had awarded the second De Morgan Medal to Prof.

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