 I have spoken of the boulder clay and drift as resting upon the chalk. That is not strictly true. Interposed between the chalk and the drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer tells a wonderful history....  Huxley's Autobiography and Essays - Page 121by Thomas Henry Huxley - 2006 - 288 lehteLimited preview - About this book
 | 1868 - 978 lehte
...between the chalk anil the drift is a comparably insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | 1868 - 582 lehte
...between the chalk and the drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 lehte
...oak and yew trees, beeches ami alders. Hence this stratum is appropriately called the " forest- bed." It is obvious that the chalk must have been upheaved and converted into dry land befora the timber trees could grow upon it. As the bolls of sonic of these trees are from two to three... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1870 - 392 lehte
...full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts; there stand the stools of oak and...dry land before the timber trees could grow upon it. As the trunks of some of these trees are from two to three feet in diameter, it is no less clear that... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1870 - 384 lehte
...between the Chalk and the Drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 lehte
...between the chalk and the drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 lehte
...the drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But that layer teljs a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1873 - 496 lehte
...the Chalk and the Drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But the layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps...dry land before the timber trees could grow upon it. As the trunks of some of these trees are from two to three feet in diameter, it is no less clear that... | |
 | 1873 - 984 lehte
...the chalk and the drift is a comparatively insignificant layer, containing vegetable matter. But the layer tells a wonderful history. It is full of stumps of trees standing as they grew. Fir-trees are there with their cones, and hazel-bushes with their nuts ; there stand the stools of... | |
 | Herbert William Morris - 1876 - 736 lehte
...oak and yew trees, beeches and alders. Hence this stratum is appropriately called the 'forest bed.' It is obvious that the chalk must have been upheaved...land, before the timber trees could grow upon it. As the bolls of some of these trees are from two to three feet in diameter, it is no less clear that... | |
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