 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 pages
...landslips. We restrict the term alluvium to such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. The alluvium of the bed of a river does not often contain any animal or vegetable remains, for the whole... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., Alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see vol. ii.... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1833 - 366 pages
...landslq)s. We restrict the term alluvium to such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. River alluvium.—The alluvium of the bed of a river does not often contain any animal or vegetable... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 562 pages
...ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanentty submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., Alluo, to wash upon. For a further... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 420 pages
...ALLUVION. Synonymous with alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 pages
...ALLUVION. Synonymous wilh alluvium, which see. ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluu, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 440 pages
...organic bodies in alluvium, by which I mean such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas,>^-I say permanently submerged, in order to distinguish between alluviums and regular subaqueous... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 442 pages
...organic bodies in alluvium, by which I mean such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas, — I say permanently submerged, in order to distinguish between alluviums and regular subaqueous deposits.... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - 1836 - 686 pages
...front LyelVs Principles of Geology. Alluvium. — Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter, which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes- or seas. Etym. alluo, to wash upon. Anticlinal Axis. — If a range of hills, or a valley, be composed of strata,... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...FROM LYELL'S PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY. Alluvium. — Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Amorphous. — Bodies devoid of regular form. Amygdaloid. — One of the forms of the Trap-rocks, in... | |
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ALLUVIUM. Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. 
