The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2: First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic RemainsMantell, Gideon Algernon
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The Medals of Creation, Volumes 1 and 2: First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains
Mantell, Gideon Algernon
Geology -- England -- Guidebooks; Paleontology
Toxaster complanatus 329
109. Foraminifera from the Chalk 342
110. Nummulites, or Nummulina 344
111. Foraminifera from the Chalk 347
112. Spirolinites in flint 349
113. Nonionina Germanica (recent) 350
114. Foraminifera in Chalk and flint 351
115. Chalk-dust, chiefly composed of Foraminifera 355
116. Section of a Rotalia in flint 356
117. Rotalia in flint, with the fossilized body of the animal in
the shell 358
118. Soft Bodies of Foraminifera extracted from the Chalk 359
119. Remains of Foraminifera in chalk and flint 361
120. Fossil Oyster, from the Chalk 374
121. Recent Bivalve Mollusc, showing the several parts of the
shell and the animal 377
122. Turritellæ from Bracklesham 383
123. Shell-Conglomerate 385
124. Shell-Limestone, from the mouth of the Thames 386
125. Terebratula and Rhynchonella 388
126. Terebratula and Spirifer 390
127. Shells and Echinite from the Oolite and Lias 397
128. Spondylus spinosus in Chalk-flint 399
129. Inoceramus Cuvieri of the Chalk 401
130. Flint with fragments of Inoceramus perforated by Clionites 403
131. Unio Valdensis 415
132. Cyclas and Melanopsis 416
133. Fossil Shells of Gasteropoda 418
134. Polished Slab of Purbeck Marble 422
135. Univalves from the Chalk of Touraine 427
136. Univalves from the Mountain Limestone 428
137. Murchisonia bilineata 430
138. Sphærulites from the Chalk 431
139. Coprolites and Molluskite 432
THE
MEDALS OF CREATION.
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INTRODUCTION.
"Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it
treats, ranks next to Astronomy in the scale of the Sciences."--_Sir J.
F. W. Herschel._
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