| 单词 | carboniferous |
| 例句 | To interpret rocks, there needs to be some means of correlation, a basis on which you can tell that those carboniferous rocks from Devon are younger than these Cambrian rocks from Wales. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They have the mystery of ferns that disappeared a million years ago into the coal of the carboniferous era. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay exterior is filled with spray insulation and impressed with individual scales, which are based off of a 3-D print of a carboniferous plant fossil. Virginia sculptor creates huge mythical monster for exhibit 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Our burning of the liquefied remains of carboniferous forests melts glacial ice that fell as snow in the Pleistocene, raising sea levels for a future Anthropocene. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The theoretical potential is there, under the carboniferous rocks of the English north-west and the Scottish central belt, for an energy revolution on the scale of North Sea oil. Whatever you think of fracking, this isn't the way forward 2013-05-01T17:09:40Z During the carboniferous times the poles were as warm as the tropics and when the Ice Age came on it was very chilly everywhere. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z They confirm the ideas entertained of the humid climate of the carboniferous period, the forests of which we know were continuous over areas several miles in diameter. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie, Isaacs, and Bowen Rivers drain this carboniferous area; and numerous outcrops of coal have been observed on these streams. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z He infers, however, that oil wells in the vicinity of auriferous deposits may yield a larger quantity of gold than from oil wells situated in carboniferous strata. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z In other sections they are mixed with limestones and dolomites of the upper carboniferous age mingled with slate, sandstone and pudding stone. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z Sometimes, like the tracks of salamanders and reptiles in the carboniferous rocks of Pennsylvania and Kansas, these are all we have to tell of the existence of air-breathing animals. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z The same blending of corals has been found in Ireland, the Bas Boulonnais, and in Devonshire, where silurian and carboniferous forms are of common occurrence in the same localities. 5th. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z This district is formed of the carboniferous limestone which occupies most of Central Ireland. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Cockroaches and other insects were also denizens of the carboniferous forests. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z Here and there we found pieces of lignite coal, and as we neared Svartevoeg the carboniferous formation became more evident. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The rocks beneath and about these carboniferous forests rose and sank age through age, cycle through cycle. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z Inland of these, the ordinary pale carboniferous sandstone and cherty limestone re-appeared. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The coast eastwards from Slieve League becomes suddenly low, and the formation changes to carboniferous limestone, which occupies a broad belt round Donegal Bay. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Both for their influence upon the physical features and for their economic value the carboniferous rocks of Flintshire are the most important. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The view from Hollymead House—better still from a high hill or “tump” above it—took in the valley of the river where it enters the carboniferous strata near Kerne bridge. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Ages later swamp forests grew in the intervening valleys, bearing and shedding the spores and thick, somber leaves still traceable in the lower carboniferous strata. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z Point Wilkie appears to be an isolated patch of liassic age, resting upon carboniferous sandstones and limestones, with bands of chert, of the same age as the limestones and sandstones of Melville Island. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z This formation, replete with carboniferous fossils, is remarkably monotonous and symmetrical. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Silurian strata, mostly of Wenlock age, lie below the carboniferous limestone on the western border of the county. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The peculiarity is due to the hard carboniferous limestone, which forms its periphery, having better resisted denudation than the softer matrix of the coal measures embraced by it. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z But in other parts of the world, the dense carboniferous forests continued to grow for another fifty or more million years. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z The eastern shores of Intrepid Inlet is composed of this formation; while the western, rising into hills and terraces, is of the underlying carboniferous epoch. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The low-lands went uncultivated, and became jungles of a thickness comparable only to those of the first carboniferous period. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z It has an especial interest as being the sole survivor of many species which grew abundantly in the carboniferous age. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Of the three hundred species found in and beneath the carboniferous group, two thirds are tree ferns, or gigantic equisetaceæ. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z A group of less articulate but not less active workers like Buckland and Mantell performed similar services for the carboniferous, the wealden, and the tertiary deposits. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z These sandstone beds are succeeded by a series of blue limestone beds, containing an abundance of the marine shells commonly found in all parts of the world where the carboniferous deposits are at all developed. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Little or nothing is known about the 120m-year-old porous, carboniferous rocks that contain the oil. Brazil quietly secures its offshore oil platforms 2010-06-15T13:00:00Z The southern boundary of this belt is formed by a great thrust-plane, the faille du midi, along which the Devonian beds of the south have been thrust over the carboniferous beds of the coalfield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The upper part, or the coal measures, is carboniferous; that is, abounding in coal. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The mountainous region in the south-east and east is mainly composed of volcanic, Silurian, carbonaceous, and carboniferous rocks yielding good coal. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In this locality abundance of vesicular scoriaceous trap rocks were found by Captain M'Clintock; they appear to me to be the representatives of the volcanic rocks found everywhere at the commencement of the carboniferous period. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The carboniferous and older stratified beds still cover the west half of the hills, while from the east half they have been removed, exposing the granite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Bituminous matter, if not the carboniferous system itself, exists abundantly on the banks of the Euphrates. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. In the lower part of this stratum is found carboniferous limestone, which is overlaid by a kind of stone called millstone grit, and on top of this lie the true carboniferous strata or coal-bearing measures. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. A term usually applied, in a technical sense, to an ancient group of secondary strata; but any bed containing coal may be said to be carboniferous. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology A question of very considerable geological interest is raised by the occurrence together of corals, in the same locality, of silurian and carboniferous forms. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Several hollows and pipes in the carboniferous limestone about Orme’s Head contain clays and sands of mixed origin, including Upper Carboniferous, Triassic and drift materials. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" This northern projection is formed of Laurentian gneiss, the only instance in Nova Scotia of this formation, and is fringed by a narrow border of carboniferous rocks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The soil of the greater portion of the county, i.e. the granite, quartz and mica slate districts, is thin and cold, while that on the carboniferous limestone is warm and friable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Another point of resemblance between the Flora of New Zealand and that of the ancient carboniferous period is the prevalence of the fir tribe or of coniferous wood. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology I do not believe in the lapse of a long interval of time between the silurian and carboniferous deposits,—in fact, in a Devonian period. 4th. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Historically, it was at the apex of civilized culture before Jlob ever existed except as a steaming carboniferous swamp peopled largely by a species of amphibian. Earthsmith Possibly their energy is of electrical or carboniferous origin, or it could be even vegetable in nature. Monsoons of Death Snell says that the great carboniferous strata are all in Ireland, but that they lie deep, and demand vast capital to work them. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Up to the year 1844 it was laid 136 down as a received dogma in many works of high authority in geology, that reptiles were not created until after the close of the carboniferous epoch. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Their history is writ far back in the black strata of the carboniferous age, and that they will be the last trees to disappear off the earth, who can gainsay? Seeds of Pine A hundred million years ago, plus or minus, there was carboniferous forest on Glade. Student Body If there were any parallel between the Miltonic account and the circumstantial evidence, we ought to have abundant evidence in the devonian, the silurian, and carboniferous rocks. Was Man Created? He had seen tree-fern jungles and a monstrous red sun, and all the flora and fauna of a planet in the carboniferous period of development. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Thus, for example, on the borders of Wales and Shropshire we find the slaty beds of the ancient Silurian system curved and vertical, while the beds of the overlying carboniferous shale and sandstone are horizontal. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology They have probably been on their job since carboniferous times, many millions of years before man took up the art. Under the Maples Marine animals antedate the carboniferous period, during which all our coal deposits were laid, but no remains of fowl are found until a later period. Bible Romances First Series And if here there were the gigantic growths of a carboniferous era, the tropic regions of this planet must be literal infernos. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 And Tommy, standing alone in the blackness of a carboniferous jungle upon an alien planet, sent bullet after bullet into the shaking, obscenely flabby body of the thing. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Mr., on coal plants of Alabama, 88.——, on ferns in carboniferous era, 87.Bunsen, Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It is a cemetery of the old carboniferous gods, and it seems to have been prepared by gentle hands and watched over with kindly care. Under the Maples Observe, then, that while in the early history of such a continent a carboniferous period could not occur, the occurrence of a carboniferous period would become probable after long-continued upheavals had uncovered large areas. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The soil, of incredible fertility, still poured forth those gigantic tree grasses, and colossal, sappy ferns and psuedo-palms, which had flourished chiefly in the carboniferous period. In the Morning of Time Like any other great series of strata in the plateau province, the carboniferous has its own range of colors, which might serve to distinguish it, even if we had no other criterion. Our Italy They remind the geologist of the prostrate position of large stems of Sigillaria and Lepidodendron, converted into coal in ancient carboniferous rocks. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology About a dozen men, with little tables before them, are dispersed over the latter part of the ascent, and keep tempting you with "fossiliferous specimens of the oolite formation," "tertiary," "silurian," "saurian," "stratification," "carboniferous." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 But the group is an inconsiderable one; for insects seem to have occupied no very conspicuous place in the carboniferous fauna. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed With no existing power to arrest or mitigate the sentence of this relentless, carboniferous judge, how fearful may be the possible fate of those who disregard the moral laws of protoplasm. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Those of Derbyshire and the north of England—lead and iron—in the carboniferous system. The Mines and its Wonders A wide expanse of ocean, interspersed with islands, seems to have pervaded the northern hemisphere at the periods when the Silurian and carboniferous rocks were formed, and a warm and very uniform temperature then prevailed. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology We had the great carboniferous period, when the temperature must almost have been tropical in Arctic latitudes. The Story of the Heavens These reptiles of the carboniferous era, though only a few twelvemonths ago we little suspected the fact, seem to have been not very rare in our own neighborhood. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed In the winter and in northern climates a larger proportion of the fatty or carboniferous elements are required than in summer and in southern latitudes. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies It is cut through carboniferous rocks—sandstones and limestones—which are here nearly horizontal. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 The footprints of a large quadruped, probably batrachian, had also been observed by Dr. King in the carboniferous rocks of Pennsylvania in 1844. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In order to account for ancient life, that passed away, as far back as the carboniferous age, it is claimed that millions of years passed before that age began. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 For so "patent" is this carboniferous character of the system, that it has given to it its universally accepted designation,—the verbal sign by which it is represented wherever it is known. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed I could not, without delaying the ship longer than I wished, procure samples of the strata, but there was no appearance of carboniferous minerals. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Once, when I inserted a long streamer of delicate water-weed, it remained upright, like some strange tree of carboniferous memory. Edge of the Jungle We need not despair, therefore, of obtaining eventually fossil representatives of all the principal orders of hexapods and arachnidæ in carboniferous strata. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In the ripple-marks on sandy beaches of the present day we see Nature's exact repetition of the operations by which she impressed similar features on the sandstones of the carboniferous era. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science There are no doubt carboniferous deposits on the earth's surface still unknown to the geologist, the evidence of which on the point must be regarded, in consequence, not as "patent to all," but as nil. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed In the highlands, carboniferous rocks produce a sandy loam which is responsible for the vast timber growth there. Blue Ridge Country In the Grand Lake carboniferous area 15 distinct seams were discovered, also ranging from a few inches to several feet. Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor Negroes are constitutionally averse to winter and cold, and recognize, without knowing why, the carboniferous properties of pork and pone. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood The surface which the carboniferous limestone exposes is also represented in the map. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account Ere passing to the luxuriant carboniferous flora, I shall make but one other remark. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Timbuk was essentially a jungle planet, barely emerging from the carboniferous stage. Sand Doom A similar fortune was experienced by the ferns and club-mosses which formed whole forests in the carboniferous period. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality The term “New Red” was given to distinguish these rocks from the “Old Red,” which lies below the Mountain Limestone, the lowest division of the carboniferous rocks. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 As in the carboniferous strata what was pliant vegetation has become heavy mineral, our evil deeds lie heavy on our souls. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Three sevenths of the entire carboniferous flora of Britain belonged to this familiar class; and for about fifty species more we can discover no nearer analogies than those which connect them with the fern allies. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed At a sudden bend we cut to the left deeper into the mountain till on both sides we were enclosed by almost perpendicular precipices of carboniferous formation, limestone, about 1600 feet high. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 This story, as far as the history of the earth was concerned, was soon told; the cliffs were of gray carboniferous limestone. The Mermaid A Love Tale Then, through the dark coniferous grove they wandered side by side, The tender Iguanodon and Ichthyosaurian bride; And through the enubilious air, the carboniferous breeze, Awoke, with their amphibious sighs, the silence in the trees. Dot and the Kangaroo I think they used to splash about the water and fly over the land during the carboniferous period; anyway, it doesn't matter. In Search of the Unknown The number of carboniferous plants hitherto described amounts, says M. Ad. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The Magnesian Limestone deposits succeed the carboniferous, and sometimes pass into them by insensible gradations. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges It is perhaps a reminiscence of the carboniferous period when the insect world gradually took shape through prodigious procreation. Social Life in the Insect World He will be interested, too, in noticing the angles at which the latter dip beneath the carboniferous strata, and these again beneath the overlying permians. Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury It's got that hard carboniferous skin and the gooey inside that's hot enough to scald my tongue. Shadow of the Mothaship With what wild thoughts must that restless and unhappy spirit have wandered amid the tangled mazes of the old carboniferous forests! The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed It is only in the next or carboniferous formation that evidence is traced of island or continent. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges The coal of the carboniferous age is derived almost entirely from the family of plants called Lycopods, or club mosses, and the ferns, which back in high antiquity attained gigantic size. The Harris-Ingram Experiment This remarkable carboniferous flora extends to Southern Kashmir, so that it is to be inferred that this region was also part of the main Gondwanaland. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays Let us transport ourselves to the carboniferous times, and see the condition of the earth, and this may assist us to answer the question. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The amphibia of the carboniferous and the next period and the reptiles of the mesozoic have disappeared; only a few feeble degenerate remnants persist. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Class C, are the carboniferous principles, that maintain respiration; Class N, are the nitrogenous principles, that repair waste of tissue. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Witham has the great merit of having first recognized the existence of Coniferae in the early vegetation of the old carboniferous formation. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 His ponderous scientific brain told him one thing in plain terms, and yet he was leaning on the words of a chit that wouldn't know a carboniferous vertebra from an Upper Silurian gerumpsus. Ma Pettengill Stand on this rocky eminence and behold that sea of verdure, whose gigantic waves roll in the greenest of billows to the verge of the horizon—that is a carboniferous forest. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Between the eastern and central pre-Cambrian masses carboniferous rocks are found. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 The chemical changes which have taken place in the beds of vegetation of the carboniferous epoch, and which have transformed it into coal, are even now but imperfectly understood. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Each of the series of level, continuous beds of carboniferous rocks of the ca�on has, as we have seen, its own characteristic color. The Grand Cañon of the Colorado It must of seemed longer to Oswald than it takes for a chinch bug to become a carboniferous Jurassic. Ma Pettengill Five and seven miles to the westward of Cape Patterson there are two rivulets, near the former of which an inferior kind of coal crops out; it occurs in beds of the carboniferous series. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The burial ground is artificially made of a fine carboniferous earth. Hygeia, a City of Health Add to these the numerous conifers which are there found, and we shall find that a forest in that country may represent to a certain extent the appearance presented by a forest of carboniferous vegetation. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Yes, they're both 'marsh gas' caused by the decay of the huge ferns and plants of the carboniferous age. Ethel Morton's Enterprise Whereupon the lady drew herself up and remarked in the clipped accent of a parrot: "No, sir; it's a carboniferous trilobite of the Upper Silurian." Ma Pettengill Its shoulders are of silurian and carboniferous strata. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association Who made it, this respectable English Land, wheat-growing, metalliferous, carboniferous, which will let readily, hand over hand, for seventy millions or upwards, as it here lies: who did make it? Essays in Rebellion Professor Hull classifies these carboniferous beds as follows:— UPPER CARBONIFEROUS. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Many millions of years ago the pollen of huge fern trees was falling to the earth in the carboniferous era and making coal. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers That there," she glibly rattled off, "is the organic remains of a three-toed woolly bronsolumphicus of the carboniferous limestone, or Upper Silurian trilobite period. Ma Pettengill Each of the series of level, continuous beds of carboniferous rocks of the canyon has, as we have seen, its own characteristic color. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon "If ever geologists should by any chance live upon earth again they will have some strange theories of the existence of man in carboniferous strata." The Poison Belt In carboniferous times there lived numberless creatures which we know nowadays as encrinites. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes For six million years, during the carboniferous period, the tree ferns dropped their pollen dust to the earth forming coal beds which now cook our dinners and incidentally make J. Pierpont Morgan so prosperous. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers The group with which we have to deal is called the carboniferous or coal bearing system, and it includes four classes of rocks, viz.: Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Some features of the condition of the earth during the deposition of the carboniferous group, are made out with a clearness which must satisfy most minds. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Wherever it is found, it lies on the top of the “mountain,” or carboniferous limestone. Town Geology Owing to the great igneous and volcanic activity at the close of the deposition of the carboniferous system of strata, the coal-measures exhibit what are known as faults in abundance. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Above these were masses which, bike the carboniferous strata of Earth, recalled the previous existence of a richer but less highly organised form of vegetation than at present exists anywhere upon the surface. Across the Zodiac The warm springs of Matlock are a case in point; they are probably the last vestige of volcanic action which was in operation in that neighborhood during carboniferous times. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Coal strata are nearly confined to the group termed the carboniferous formation. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation What I might see there surely could offend no one, unless it were the deity of Coal,—and Redleaf was not near any carboniferous group. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 It is somewhat strange to think that where once existed the solitudes of an ancient carboniferous forest now is the site of a busy underground town. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Petroleum: Rock oil, an inflammable, bituminous liquid exuding from rocks or from the earth in the neighborhood of the carboniferous or coal-bearing formation. American Woman's Home "It is plain," he said, "that the basalt monadnock on which we stand is a carboniferous upthrust of metamorphosed schists, shales and conglomerate, probably Mesozoic or at least early Silurian." The Cruise of the Kawa Two-thirds of the plants of the carboniferous era are of the cellular or cryptogamic kind, a proportion which would probably be much increased if we knew the whole Flora of that era. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation What I discovered was another face, not in the most remote degree like mine,—as different as it could possibly be,—a face belonging to the carboniferous strata of the human ages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 In the lower carboniferous group is found the peculiar asphaltic coal of the Albert mine in New Brunswick. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes If born in winter, we should believe in summer as we now believe in the heats of the carboniferous era. Public Opinion Is the organic type of fish higher now than it was during the carboniferous period, when the Sauroids so much abounded? Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence The termination of the carboniferous formation is marked by symptoms of volcanic violence, which some geologists have considered to denote the close of one system of things and the beginning of another. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation For about three thousand feet the strata penetrated were of carboniferous and magnesian limestone alternating with sandstone. The Earth as Modified by Human Action In the mountainous districts of western China the area over which carboniferous strata are exposed has been estimated at 100,000 square miles. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The carboniferous rocks before alluded to as horizontal on the borders of Wales are vertical in the Mendip hills in Somersetshire, where the overlying beds of the New Red Sandstone are horizontal. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Five and twenty years ago, all the world but yourself believed that a vertebrate animal of higher organisation than a fish in the carboniferous rocks never existed. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Without a store of fixed nitrogen in the soil these carboniferous plants could not have grown. The Story of Germ Life The carboniferous strata form the second of our landmarks. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science Of the 7000 feet of carboniferous strata here found, spread out over an area of 217 square miles, there are on the average eighteen seams of coal. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Thus, for example, on the borders of Wales and Shropshire, we find the slaty beds of the ancient Silurian system inclined and vertical, while the beds of the overlying carboniferous shale and sandstone are horizontal. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) My dear Sir Charles, I returned last night from a hasty journey to Ireland, whither I betook myself on Thursday night, being attracted vulture-wise by the scent of a quantity of carboniferous corpses. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 The conversion of the vegetation of the carboniferous ages into coal was accompanied by a gradual loss of hydrogen and a consequent increase in the percentage of carbon. The Story of Germ Life As the Trias is drawing to its close, the class of reptiles, whose first known appearance belongs to the carboniferous epoch of the third day, begins to show signs of advance. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science Again, older than the true carboniferous age, are the Silurian anthracites of Co. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes On this substructure he gently deposits one or more carboniferous nodules the size of a pigeon egg, and touches a match to the whole. Europe Revised The early date of the carboniferous strata can not explain the enigma, because we know that while the land supported a luxuriant vegetation, the contemporaneous seas swarmed with life— with Articulata, Mollusca, Radiata, and Fishes. The Student's Elements of Geology The vegetation of the carboniferous age was dependent upon the nitrogen fixed by the bacteria, and to these organisms also do we owe the fact that this vegetation was stored for us in the rocks. The Story of Germ Life The whole history of the carboniferous period was written upon these gloomy walls, and a geologist might with ease trace all its diverse phases. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Like the lower coals of Scotland, the Russian coals are found in the carboniferous limestone. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Then, through the dark coniferous grove they wandered side by side, The tender Iguanodon and Ichthyosaurian bride And through the enubilious air, the carboniferous breeze, Awoke, with their amphibious sighs, the silence in the trees. Dot and the Kangaroo In the tuff I found fragments of carboniferous shale and limestone, and intersecting veins of greenstone. The Student's Elements of Geology In the ferruginous sandstones, associated with the carboniferous deposits of Spitzberg, the beech, the poplar, the magnolia, the plum tree, the sequoia, and numerous coniferous trees can be made out. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous, devonian, silurian, or primitive was all one to me. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Coal is found overlying the carboniferous limestone of the Cantabrian chain, the seams being from 5 feet to 8 feet thick. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes The production of steel needles seemed to extend domesticity, but actually created the basis for the sweat trades following what Louis Mumford called carboniferous capitalism. The Civilization of Illiteracy His computation of the thickness of the whole series of carboniferous strata as exceeding three miles, agrees with the measurement made independently by Sir William Logan in his survey of this coast. The Student's Elements of Geology These arms afford an excellent opportunity for seeing the various carboniferous deposits. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it The Devonian rocks may lie at the surface simply because the thousands of feet of carboniferous strata that once lay above them have been worn away. A History of Science — Volume 3 In Peru the true carboniferous coal-seams are found on the higher ground of the Andes, whilst coal of secondary age is found in considerable quantities on the rise towards the mountains. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes They are all made up of the carboniferous limestone, so called, as your little knowledge of Latin ought to tell you, because it carries the coal; because the coalfields usually lie upon it. Madam How and Lady Why Mr. Charles Moore had previously discovered many teeth of mammalia of the same family near Frome, in Somersetshire, in the contents of a vertical fissure traversing a mass of carboniferous limestone. The Student's Elements of Geology His labors did credit to the body of engineers who are gradually devouring the carboniferous subsoil of the United Kingdom, as much at Cardiff and Newcastle, as in the southern counties of Scotland. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern For instance, not a land shell is known belonging to either of these vast periods, with one exception discovered by Sir C. Lyell in the carboniferous strata of North America. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life Simon Ford was descended from an old mining family, and his ancestors had worked the very first carboniferous seams opened in Scotland. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Yes," thought James Starr, "behind that wall lies a carboniferous bed, undiscovered by our soundings. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern Professor Goppert, after examining the fossil vegetables of the coal-fields of Germany, has detected, in beds of pure coal, remains of plants of every family hitherto known to occur fossil in the carboniferous rocks. The Student's Elements of Geology Pressure seems to have played a considerable part in the formation of carboniferous strata. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern As a matter of course, the engineer, James Starr, as well as Simon Ford, the discoverers of this rich carboniferous region, shared largely in the profits. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern |
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