Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell.

  • Charles Lyell
Date:
1865
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Credit: Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    country* ; and the freshwater shells of existing species and bones of land quadrupeds, partly of extinct races, preserved in the terraces of lluviatile origin, attest the exclusion of the sea during the whole ]jrocess of filling up and partial re-excavation. Such terraces are the converse of those mentioned at p. 80., fio-. 99. where the uppermost of the series is formed of alluvium of oldest date, which originated long before the valley had attained its actual width and depth.