Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the stratified rocks, no sign of life having been dete- cted in the igneous, or metamorphic rocks as they are called by Sir C. Lyell. Table showing the order in which rocks occur. Post-Tertiary. Glacial deposits, caves, peat moss. Pliocene. Lacustrine deposits. Miocene. Lignites, Silioalik beds of India. Eocene. Lo7idon clay, gypsum. O C o Co Cretaceous. Chalk cliffs, green sand stone. Jurassic. Jura lime stone, Portland stone. Trias, New red sand stone, marl. Permian. O O O 8 Magnesian-lime-stone, and marl. Carboniferous. Coal fields. Devonian. Old red sand stone. Silurian. Lime stone, flags. Cambrian. Slate rocks. Lower-Cambrian, equivalent to Huron of Canada, eighteen thousand feet thick.
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