Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire: Or, A Description of the Strata and Organic Remains. Part I. The Yorkshire Coast, Volume 1 |
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Ammonites appears Assoc bands Bean beds Belemnites boulder-clay Bridlington C. B. Scarborough C. O. Malton calcareous grit Cave cliffs Cloughton Coal Coralline Oolite Cornbrash D'Orb deposit diluvial Dogger Filey fossils Frond Geol Geological Survey gravel grey Gristhorpe Haiburn Wyke hills Humber I. O. Blue Wick Ibid inches ironstone Journ Kelloway rock Kimmeridge Clay lacustrine laminated layers Leck Leckenby Lias shale Liassic Lign limestone Lond lower shale M. O. Cloughton Malton marl marlstone middle shale N.E. America Neocomian Neocomian Species nodules Oolite Oolitic Species Oxford Clay Palæontograph peat pebbles Pecopteris Phil Phillips pinnulæ PLATE Polytech Proc Prof Red Chalk Riding York Robin Hood's Bay Saltwick sand sandstone sandstones and shales sandy shale shells specimens Speeton clay Sphenopteris Staithes strata Trans Upper Clay Upper Lias Vale of Pickering Vale of York venation Whitby Williamson Yorkshire coast
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Page 290 - Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyaena and sixteen other animals : discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821 : with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the Continent.
Page 301 - WOOD (SV) A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca or Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England.
Page 68 - ... POINT. The southernmost part of the coast of Yorkshire is a low peninsula of gravel and sand, accumulated by the sea and the wind, and laid in its peculiar forms by the united action of currents from the sea and the Humber. The materials which fall from the wasting cliffs between Bridlington and Kilnsea are sorted by the tide according to their weight and magnitude; the pebbles are strewed upon the shore, beneath the precipice from which they fell ; the sand is driven along and accumulated in...
Page 58 - Yorkshire, is composed of a base of clay, containing fragments of pre-existing rocks, varying in roundness and size. The rocks from which the fragments appear to have been transported are found, some in Norway...
Page 289 - FAREY. J. Short Notices of Geological Observations made in the Summer of 1814, in the South of Yorkshire and in North Wales, and of some inferences therefrom, as to the Structure of England and Wales.
Page 286 - A Tour to the Caves in the Environs of Ingleborough and Settle, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, &c. Also a large Glossary of old and original Words made use of in common conversation in the North of England.
Page 300 - MILNE-EDWARDS, Prof. H., and J. HAIME. A Monograph of the British Fossil Corals. Third Part. Corals from the Permian Formation and the Mountain Limestone (the latter in part Yorkshire).
Page 298 - On the relation of the New Red Sandstone to the Carboniferous Strata in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Page 50 - ... quotations above given, I confess that I have grave doubts on the subject, so far as regards the chalk area, where there are neither running streams on the surface of the valleys nor any subterranean, as far as can be ascertained, in the same lines. Speaking of the Wold dales, Professor Phillips writes : " Where several of these valleys meet they produce a very pleasing combination of salient and retiring slopes, which resemble, on a grand scale, the petty concavities and projections in the actual...
Page 296 - Observation on the Occurrence of Boulders of Granite and other Crystalline Rocks in the Valley of the Calder, near Halifax.