Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 109
ly all contain the f|||remains of fishes, rep-tiles, and shell-fish,in great abundance—indeed, some of thebeds are composedalmost entirely ofthe remains of ani-mal life. Such remains, be- FlG- 47.—Fossil Fish. ing dug out of the Earth, are called Fossils (from the Latin of the stratified rocks in… … STKATIFIED KOCKS. 103 fossilis, dug). From their containing fossils, the stratifiedrocks have been called Fossiliferous. 196. It must not be supposed that the stratified rocks ofwhich we have spoken, are everywhere met with as theyare shown in the table. Each bed could have been depos-ited only on…
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