Physiography : an introduction to the study of nature / by T.H. Huxley.

  • Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
Date:
1905
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Physiography : an introduction to the study of nature / by T.H. Huxley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIG. PAG5 57. Graham Island, 1831 58. Beehive Geyser, Yellowstone Park, Colorado 201 59. Marble Column from Temple of Jupiter Serapis .... 207 60. Strata deposited in a basin 214 61. Strata thrown into a basin-shape 214 62. Section from Abingdon to the Isle of Wight 215 63. Fossil fruit (Nipadites ellipticus) from the London clay, Sheppey 230 64. Microscopic section of diatomaceous deposit, Mourne Moun- tains, Ireland 231 65. Section of coal measures . . 235 66. Stigmaria ficoides ; a coal measure fossil 236 67. Sigillaria attached to stigmarian roots 237 68. Cuboidal block of coal split along natural planes . . . . 238 69. Microscopic section of Better Bed coal, Yorkshire . . . 239 70. Caryophyllia Smithii, a coral-polype from the coast of Devon- shire 250 71. Diagrammatic section of a single cup-coral, to show the general structure of the polype, and the relation of the skeleton to the soft parts 251 72. Thicopsammia socialis, Pourtales 252 73. Diagrammatic section of an island surrounded by a fringing- reef 258 74. Diagrammatic section of an island surrounded by a barrier- reef, with intervening lagoon 258 75. Diagrammatic section of a coral island, or atoll 258 76. 77. Deep-sea sounding apparatus used by the Challenger . . 262 78. Section of the Atlantic sea-bed between Newfoundland and Ireland 264 79. Globigerina bulloides, D’Orb.; Orbulina universa, D’Orb. ; a coccosphere; a coccolith, two views , . . . . 265 80. Section exposed in Cannon Street, London, 1851 .... 275 81. Map of the Valley of the Thames, between Kingston and Woolwich 279 82. Section across the Valley of the Wandle, showing high-level gravels and valley-gravel .... 28c b