 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...shield, and Trnpov, pteron, a wing. CONGENERS. Species which belong to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock, or pebbles,...another mineral substance, which may be of a siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., Con, together, glomero, to heap. CONIFER*. An order of plants... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...of another set which are in contact, they are said to be conformable. Conglomerate or Puddingstone. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., con, together, glomero, to heap. Coniferx. An... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - 1836 - 686 pages
...another set which are in contact, they are said to be conformable. Conglomerate, or Puddingstone. — Rounded, water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented together by another mineral substance, whiqh may be of a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym. con, together, glomero, to heap.... | |
 | geologocal survey of pennsylvania - 1838 - 446 pages
...of another set which are in contact, they are said to be conformable. Conglomerate or Puddingstone. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym. con, together, glomero, to heap. Crop Out. A miner's... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. State Geologist (1836-1841) - 1838 - 108 pages
...of another set which are in contact, they are said to be conformable. Conglomerate or Puddingstone. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym. con, together, glomero, to heap. Crop Out. A miner's... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1841 - 880 pages
...to signify that the " formation " so called, consisted of " Rounded water- worn fragments of rocks or pebbles, cemented together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous, or argillaceous nature," — in other words, of a flinty, an effervescent, or... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1848 - 186 pages
...felspathic rock of the trap family, usually fissile: — sonorous when struck. CONGLOMERATE (Pudding stone). Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be either siliceous, calcareous, or argillaceous. COMB. A valley on the declivity of a hill ; generally... | |
 | John Anderson - 1851 - 388 pages
...unconformable. CONGENERS. Species belonging to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE or PUDDINGSTONE. A rock made up of rounded waterworn fragments of rock or pebbles cemented together by another mineral substance. CONIFERJE. Trees that bear cones, as the pine. COPROLITE. The fossil remains of excrement. COSMICAL.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...unconformably on E. CONOEXERS. Specica which belong to the same genus. CONGLOMERATE, or PoDuiNosTONE. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented together by another mineral substance, which may bo of a siliccous, calcareous, or argillaceous nature. Etym., con, together, glomero, to heap. CONIFER*.... | |
 | Missouri. State geologist, George Clinton Swallow - 1855 - 496 pages
...surface of a shell. Congeners. Species which belong to the same genus. Conglomerate or PuMingstone. Rounded water-worn fragments of rock or pebbles, cemented...together by another mineral substance, which may be of a silicious, calcareous or argillaceous nature. Cosmogony, Cosmology. Words synonymous in meaning, applied... | |
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... wherever any of the varieties of coal form a principal constituent part of a group of strata. Conformable. When the planes of one set of strata are generally parallel to those of another set which are in contact, they are said to be conformable. Conglomerate... 
