Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 186
gneous rocks, is doubtless to be attributed to their for-mation upon the surface, instead of under pressure* The termhypogene includes the plutonic, and metamorphic rocks. The sedimentary rocks are termed fossiliferous, or fossil-bear=ing, in distinction to the igneous, or plutonic rocks, in which,… … zontal, hence, it is inferred, that subsequently to their deposition,they have been subjected to a variety of disturbing causes, bywhich they have been made to assume all inclinations to thehorizon. Occasionally they are uplifted to an almost vertical po-sition, as in the following illustration,…
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