"Jurassic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... human remains has been made in a cave in Cravanch, about two miles northwest of Belfort, France. Some workmen, excavating in a quarry of Jurassic limestone, found the opening to the cave, the bottom of which was covered with stalagmites, while there were no corresponding stalactites hanging from the roof. Some of these calcareous columns appear to be artificial piles covered ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... from wood-tissue to lignite, using this term with its common signification to indicate, not necessarily carbonized ligneous tissue, but plant-tissue that belongs to a past though modern geological age—i.e., Tertiary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, or Triassic. These lignites or modern coals are only peat beds which have been buried for a longer or shorter time under clay, sand, or solidified rock, and have progressed farther or less far on the road to coal. As with peats, so with lignites, we find ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... Northern and Central Chili, Darwin, when studying still older formations, clearly recognised that they contain an admixture of the forms of life, which in Europe are distinctive of the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods respectively. He was thus led to conclude that the classification of geological periods, which fairly well expresses the facts that had been discovered in the areas where the science was first ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin |
