 As the influence of the nature of sea-bottom determines in a great measure the species present on that bottom, the multiplication of individuals dependent on the rapid reproduction of successive generations of Mollusca, &c. will of itself change the ground...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 175by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1844Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 lehte
...sedimentary matter, uncharged with living organic contents, deposited on the bed formed by the exuviœ of the exhausted species, forms a fresh soil for similar or other animals to thrive, attain their maxima, and from the same cause die off. The latter portion of the report is devoted to the geological... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 lehte
...living organic contents, deposited on the bed formed by the exuvise of the exhausted species, forme a fresh soil for similar or other animals to thrive, attain their maxima, and from the same cause die off. The latter portion of the report is devoted to the geological... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1844 - 478 lehte
...sedimentary matter, uncharged with living organic contents, deposited on the bed formed by the exuvise of the exhausted species, forms a fresh soil for similar...explanation of the phenomenon of interstratification of tossiliferou* and non-fossiliferous beds. Every species has three maxima of development, — in depth,... | |
 | Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, James H. Brown - 2004 - 1284 lehte
...greens may be in many cases attributed to the abundance of nulli pore and of the Caulerpa prolifera, a sea-weed of the most brilliant peagreen, the fronds...from my observations in the British as well as the Mediterraneau seas. The geologist will see in it an explanation of the phenomenon of interstratification... | |
 | 1871 - 510 lehte
...multiply. The animals themselves, too, by their over-multiplication, appear to be the cause of their own destruction. As the influence of the nature of sea-bottom...from my observations in the British, as well as the Mediten anean seas. The Geologist will see in it an explanation of the phenomenon of interstratification... | |
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