ISBN: 1230005781

Paperback, [EAN: 9781230005782], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… Mehr…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781230005782], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...that numerous as are the serpentine protrusions among the mountain ranges, constituting some of the most powerful uplifts in the Coast mountains, and occupying a breadth of surface which is not equalled by any other volcanic rock, yet nowhere is bitumen found close to it. It is idle to speculate on the ultimate source of the asphaltum. The generally attributed source, namely, a deposit of fossil vegetable matter, overheated by volcanic rock, does not occur here apparently. The strata through which it escapes are, where observed, almost destitute of vegetable matter; the brown sandstone wholly, and the greenish having a few traces of fucoids scattered sparingly throughout their structure. The tertiary rocks are in contact with the granite. The sedimentary strata are but a few hundred feet thick before primary rock is met with. There are no palaeozoic strata, no extensive beds of metamorphic shale, no carboniferous strata, to fall back upon to hypothecate its formation. There are no excessive fish remains whose decomposition could be supposed, even by a chemical imagination, capable of producing this mineral. Illustrations of the relation of asphaltic effusions to the contiguous strata are given in plate 1, figure 2, plate 4, figures 3, 4, and 6, and plate 5, figures 2 and 3. CHAPTER XVII. OP THE QUATERNARY PERIOD IN CALIPORNIA. Observations On The Condition Of California, From The Time Of The Deposition Of The Blue Clay Downwards.--Removal Of The Upper Local Drift Of The Pacific Slope, Its Persistence In The Basin And Beoion East Of The Sikrha Nevada.--Ancif.nt Terraces.--Height Of The Waters Of That Period.--Detailed Notice Ofthe Terraces On The Salinas And San Bonito.--Santa Maroarita.--Terraces Of Banta Maria Valley, Panza Valley, And..., 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 11764653011, Maritime History & Piracy, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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[EAN: 9781230005782], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: .that numerous as are the serpentine protrusions among the mountain ranges, constituting some of the most powerful uplifts in the Coast mountains, and occupying a breadth of surface which is not equalled by any other volcanic rock, yet nowhere is bitumen found close to it. It is idle to speculate on the ultimate source of the asphaltum. The generally attributed source, namely, a deposit of fossil vegetable matter, overheated by volcanic rock, does not occur here apparently. The strata through which it escapes are, where observed, almost destitute of vegetable matter; the brown sandstone wholly, and the greenish having a few traces of fucoids scattered sparingly throughout their structure. The tertiary rocks are in contact with the granite. The sedimentary strata are but a few hundred feet thick before primary rock is met with. There are no palaeozoic strata, no extensive beds of metamorphic shale, no carboniferous strata, to fall back upon to hypothecate its formation. There are no excessive fish remains whose decomposition could be supposed, even by a chemical imagination, capable of producing this mineral. Illustrations of the relation of asphaltic effusions to the contiguous strata are given in plate 1, figure 2, plate 4, figures 3, 4, and 6, and plate 5, figures 2 and 3. CHAPTER XVII. OP THE QUATERNARY PERIOD IN CALIPORNIA. Observations On The Condition Of California, From The Time Of The Deposition Of The Blue Clay Downwards.--Removal Of The Upper Local Drift Of The Pacific Slope, Its Persistence In The Basin And Beoion East Of The Sikrha Nevada.--Ancif.nt Terraces.--Height Of The Waters Of That Period.--Detailed Notice Ofthe Terraces On The Salinas And San Bonito.--Santa Maroarita.--Terraces Of Banta Maria Valley, Panza Valley, And.<

ISBN: 1230005781

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ISBN: 9781230005782

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