Thoughts on a Pebble, Or, A First Lesson in GeologyReeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849 - 102 ページ The final edition of one of Mantell's most successful works, first published 13 years before with only 18 pages and stemming from the answers he gave his young son concerning a flint pebble from a nearby stream bed. |
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... ' p . 625. ) SHELLS AND FISHES IN CHALK . 13 hot climates . few of the corals and shells resemble , in some particulars , certain kinds that inhabit the seas of a , a , Shells called Rotalia . 12 THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE .
... ' p . 625. ) SHELLS AND FISHES IN CHALK . 13 hot climates . few of the corals and shells resemble , in some particulars , certain kinds that inhabit the seas of a , a , Shells called Rotalia . 12 THOUGHTS ON A PEBBLE .
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... resembling the beaks of a parrot : it is surrounded by eight long arms like the rays of a star - fish , and these are beset with rows of little cups which act as suckers , and enable the animal to secure its prey , and attach itself ...
... resembling the beaks of a parrot : it is surrounded by eight long arms like the rays of a star - fish , and these are beset with rows of little cups which act as suckers , and enable the animal to secure its prey , and attach itself ...
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Gideon Algernon Mantell. coloured fluid resembling ink in appearance , which they eject into the surrounding water ... resembles in its essential characters that of the Cuttle - fish , and occupies the large outer receptacle of the shell ...
Gideon Algernon Mantell. coloured fluid resembling ink in appearance , which they eject into the surrounding water ... resembles in its essential characters that of the Cuttle - fish , and occupies the large outer receptacle of the shell ...
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... resemble in this respect the shell of the Nautilus , but are readily distin- guished by the perforations . All the ... resembling in form that of the Nautilus , is essentially different ; for in the latter , the outer chamber only is ...
... resemble in this respect the shell of the Nautilus , but are readily distin- guished by the perforations . All the ... resembling in form that of the Nautilus , is essentially different ; for in the latter , the outer chamber only is ...
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... resembling in colour and solidity the flints of the English chalk . The complete impregnation and silicifi- cation of organized bodies is attributable to an agency of this kind ; and although the origin of the siliceous waters that ...
... resembling in colour and solidity the flints of the English chalk . The complete impregnation and silicifi- cation of organized bodies is attributable to an agency of this kind ; and although the origin of the siliceous waters that ...
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6th Edit abound aggregation Ammonites ancient shingle animal beautiful bivalves bones boulders Brighton Cliffs calcareous cells chalcedony chalk and flint chambers Choanite clay colour composed Coral from chalk cretaceous cretaceous strata Cuttle-fish deep delicate deposited Echinus enclosed feet figured in Lign flint nodules Flustra Foraminifera forms Fossil animalcules fossil corals fossil remains fossil shells genera highly magnified imbedded infusorial earth inhabitants integument Isle of Wight Kemptown kinds lapidaries lens of moderate Lewes Lewes Priory limestone living marine mass Medals of Creation microscope Minute Corals moderate power mollusca Nautilus Note numerous organic body origin petrified Plate Polished sections polypes racter represented in Lign resembling Richmond earth rock Rotalia Rottingdean sand sea-beach sea-shore septa shore silex siliceous silicified siphuncle SNAKE-STONES soft specimen spines sponges stone strata substance surface tentacula Terebratula thou tube univalves Ventriculite water-worn waves Whitby white chalk WIGHT PEBBLES Wonders of Geology WOOD IN FLINT zoophyte
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29 ページ - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
31 ページ - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
30 ページ - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
53 ページ - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
32 ページ - Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves...
52 ページ - Deep in the wave is a Coral Grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
31 ページ - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark heaving; boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
30 ページ - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convuls'd — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving ; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou...
53 ページ - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air...
21 ページ - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...