 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...English they are called club-mosses, generally found in mountainous heaths in the north of England. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally, applied to all the corals distinguished by superficial slar-sliaped cavities. There arc several fossil species. MACNESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive series of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 pages
...this term has been applied to a siliceous sandstone sometimes.containing calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied...MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above the coal-measures,— so called because the limestone,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 420 pages
...this term has been applied to a siliceous sandstone sometimes containing calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied...star-shaped cavities. There are several fossil species. MAGNESIAS LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...has been applied to a siliceous sandstone sometimes containing cukareous grains, mica, &c. MADREFORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied to all the...MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above the coal-measures; so called because the limestone,... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...discourse. Littoral. Belonging to the shore Etym., littus, the shore. Loam. A mixture of sand and clay. Madrepore. A genus of corals, but generally applied...star-shaped cavities. There are several fossil species. Mammillary. A surface which is studded over with rounded projections. Etym., mammilla, a little breast... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...this term has been applied to a siliceous sandstone sometimes containing calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied...MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above the coal-measures ; so called because the limestone,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 500 pages
...this term has been applied to a siliceous sandstone sometimes containing calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied...star-shaped cavities. There are several fossil species. MAQNESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pages
...this term has been applied to a silicious sandstone, sometime* contaitung calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADREPORE. A genus of corals, but generally applied...star-shaped cavities. There are several fossil species. MAONESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive scries of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...been applicd to a siliceous sandstone sometimes containing calcareous grains, mica, &c. MADKEFORK. A genus of corals, but generally applied to all the...star-shaped cavities. There are several fossil species. MAONESIAN LIMESTONE. An extensive serics of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above... | |
 | Missouri. State geologist, George Clinton Swallow - 1855 - 496 pages
...Littoral. Belonging to the shore. Loam. A mixture of sand and clay. Loess. A recent formation on the Rhine. Madrepore.. A genus of corals, but generally applied...are several fossil species. Magnesian Limestone,. A limestone which contains Carbonate of Mngnesia. It is also used to designate some of the older formations... | |
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LIMESTONE. An extensive series of beds, the geological position of which is immediately above the coal-measures,— so called because the limestone, the principal member of the series, contains much of the earth magnesia as a constituent part. 
