| Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 558 pages
...the movements of animals, and from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and course of the water, and the quarter to which the animals were passing ; the latter is indicated by the direction of the footsteps which... | |
| Joshua Trimmer - Geology - 1841 - 564 pages
...the movements of animals, and from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and course of the water, and the quarter to which the animals were passing; the latter is indicated by the direction of the footsteps which... | |
| Literature - 1852 - 638 pages
...hydrostatic, and locomotive phenomena, which occurred at a time incalculably remote, in the atmosphere, the water, and the quarter towards which the animals...indicated by the direction of the footsteps which * Geol. Tran*. Second Series. form their tracks ; the size and curvatures of the ripple-marks on the... | |
| William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...hydrostatic, and locomotive phenomena, which occurred at a time incalculably remote, in the atmosphere, the water, and the quarter towards which the animals...ripple-marks on the sand, now converted to sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current : the oblique impressions of the rain-drops register the... | |
| Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - Geology - 1859 - 450 pages
...wind, the Batracliians and Monitors; while the reptiles of the Trias are Labyrintho•dont. — WS 3. depth and course of the water, and the quarter towards...indicated by the direction of the footsteps which form the track; the size and curvature of the ripple-marks on the sand, now converted into sandstone, show... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 pages
...wind, the Batrachians and Monitors; while the reptiles of the Trias are Labyrinthodont. — WSS 19 depth and course of the water, and the quarter towards...indicated by the direction of the footsteps which form the track; the size and curvature of the ripple-marks on the sand, now converted into sandstone, show... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...the movements of animals ; and from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and...ripple-marks on the sand, now converted to sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current ; the oblique impressions of the rain -drope register the... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...the movements of animals ; and from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and...ripple-marks on the sand, now converted to sandstone, show the depth and direction of the current; the oblique impressions of the rain-dropa register the... | |
| Education - 1868 - 398 pages
...and the movements of animals, from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and...the quarter towards which the animals were passing." " There is another scarce less curious or less minutely recorded incident on a slab of the same formation.... | |
| Education - 1868 - 604 pages
...and the movements of animals, from which we infer, with the certainty of cumulative circumstantial evidence, the direction of the wind, the depth and...the quarter towards which the animals were passing." " There is another scarce less curious or less minutely ref orded incident on a slab of the same formation.... | |
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