Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina and the "great Carolina Marl Bed": With Five Colored Illustrations. A Popular and Scientific View of Their Origin, Geological Position and Age; Also Their Chemical Character and Agricultural Value; Together with a History of Their Discovery and DevelopmentHolmes' book house, 1870 - 87 頁 |
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第 28 頁 - ... animals just named, and honey-combed to the depth of five or six feet. This is its condition off Charleston harbor at the present time; and wherever the surface of the bed inland has been uncovered, it is found irregular and broken, and the phosphate rocks show this plainly. From the coarsely honey-combed...
第 41 頁 - The most remarkable feature in the Fauna of the period of the deposition of these beds was the vast number of cartilaginous fishes. It would seem as if about the close of the Eocene period these voracious monsters, conscious of their approaching end, had congregated here to die, and it is no exaggeration to say that more than a bushel of fishes' teeth have been collected at Ashley Ferry within the last few years.
第 63 頁 - Subsequent events and discoveries show conclusively that the first described bone was 'in place,' and that the beds of the Post-Pliocene, not only on the Ashley, but in France, Switzerland and other European countries, contain bones associated with the remains of extinct animals and relics of human workmanship, proving most conclusively that the Carolina specimens were found in place, and as the European discoveries were made in 1854, and ours in 1844, to South Carolina should be awarded the honor...
第 50 頁 - Matter insoluble in water, Phosphate of lime ................... 9.0 Carbonate of lime .................... 10.6 Phosphate of magnesia ............... 8.4 Peroxide of iron ..................... 3.0 Alumina a trace, and lass ............. 5.0 100.0 COTTON WORM— ITS HISTORT, CHARACTlR, VISITATIONS, ITC.
第 18 頁 - Extract of a Letter from Prof. Bailey to JL Smith. — "Charleston is built upon a bed of animalcules several hundred feet in thickness, every cubic inch of which is filled with myriads of perfectly preserved microscopic shells. These shells, however, do not, like those beneath Richmond and Petersburg, etc., belong to the siliceous infusoria, but are all derived from those minute calcareous-shelled creatures called by Ehrenberg polythalamia. and by D'Orbigny the foraminifera. You are aware that Ehrenberg...
第 56 頁 - Parish, we found a number of rolled or water-worn nodules, of a rocky material filled with the impressions or casts of marine shells. These nodules or " rocks " were scattered over the surface of the land, and in some places had been gathered into heaps, so that they could not materially interfere with the cultivation of the field.
第 31 頁 - saltlicks;" and during a series of indefinite ages, engaged, as they were, first sipping brine, then licking salt, and depositing their fecal remains, and ultimately their bones and teeth, in fact their dead bodies, in these great open " crawls
第 56 頁 - ... with the impressions or casts of marine shells. These nodules or rocks were scattered over the surface of the land, and in some places had been gathered into heaps, so that they could not materially interfere with the cultivation of the field. At that time we were students of geology and paleontology, and the interesting and beautifully preserved forms of shells, teeth, and bones mingled with the rocks filled with the casts of shells corals, and corallines, attracted our attention, and in a very...
第 30 頁 - As the evaporation of the salt water progressed, what was left became day after day a stronger brine, until at last a deposit of salt ultimately formed as a crust upon the pavement of Marl rocks. And here we must remind the reader, that these nodular fragments of Eocene rocks are composed (like the...