Geological MagazineHenry Woodward Cambridge University Press, 1912 |
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Page 266 - Main used, consists of crystalline granules, varying from the size of a pea to that of a walnut, or even larger.
Page 69 - The work on which this paper is based was commenced in 1908, and was assisted in 1909 by a grant from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society, for which grateful acknowledgment is made.
Page 193 - Stems from the Secondary Rocks of Britain " (Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi, pp.
Page 143 - On the Sources of the Materials composing the White Clays of the Lower Tertiaries ", and in the following year a paper " On the Disposition of Iron in variegated Strata", illustrated by coloured plates and many diagrams and analyses. This undoubtedly was his most important contribution to geological science, and arrested the attention and won the warmly expressed admiration of Professor...
Page 342 - Notes on Stone Implements from Otaru and Hakodate, with a few general remarks on the Prehistoric Remains of Japan,
Page 146 - ... 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 339 - it is not unlikely that every large earthquake might, with proper instrumental appliances, be recorded at any point on the land-surface of our globe.
Page 421 - References are made to the paloeontological zones in the Carboniferous Limestone, but little work has been done in the Cardiff area, the new information relating mainly to the zonal work of 1 [As we go to press the sad news reaches us of the sudden death of our dear friend Mr. Bullen, on August 14, when on his way to Germany. — HW] Dr. TF Sibly in a email part of Somerset (at "Worle Hill anil Middle Hope) that is included in the Cardiff map.
Page 358 - A Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea, with their Synonyms and the Range in Time of each Genus and Order.
Page 474 - Geology, 1834, p. 190), he showed that "if the British Islands were elevated one hundred fathoms above the level of the ocean, and thus joined to the continent of Europe, they would be surrounded by an extensive area of flat land "; but he then stated (p. 189) that " the soundings round coasts present us with no lines which we might consider to be those of valleys".