The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
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... Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of Europe and Asia ( p . 123 ) -Eocene Period ( p . 124 ) -- General Considerations on the Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Europe ( p . 126 ) 107-128 • CHAPTER VII ...
... Deposits of India ( p . 121 ) -General Observations on the Miocene Faunas of Europe and Asia ( p . 123 ) -Eocene Period ( p . 124 ) -- General Considerations on the Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Europe ( p . 126 ) 107-128 • CHAPTER VII ...
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... deposit its eggs . Keeping in mind the essential fact that changes of temperature and of depth are the main barriers to the dispersal of fish , we shall find little difficulty in tracing the causes that have determined their ...
... deposit its eggs . Keeping in mind the essential fact that changes of temperature and of depth are the main barriers to the dispersal of fish , we shall find little difficulty in tracing the causes that have determined their ...
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... deposit called boulder - clay , or glacial - drift has been formed . This is a mass of sand , clay , or gravel ... deposits are known to be formed by glaciers and icebergs ; when deposited on the land by glaciers they form moraines ...
... deposit called boulder - clay , or glacial - drift has been formed . This is a mass of sand , clay , or gravel ... deposits are known to be formed by glaciers and icebergs ; when deposited on the land by glaciers they form moraines ...
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... deposits of Post - Pliocene date we find the same two animals , which soon disappear as the climate approached its present con- dition ; and Professor Forbes has given a list of fifty shells which inhabited the British seas before the ...
... deposits of Post - Pliocene date we find the same two animals , which soon disappear as the climate approached its present con- dition ; and Professor Forbes has given a list of fifty shells which inhabited the British seas before the ...
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... deposits of oak trees ; and deeper still pines alone occur . Now the kitchen - middens tell us much of the natural history of Denmark in the early Stone period ; and a curious confirmation of the fact that Denmark like Norway was then ...
... deposits of oak trees ; and deeper still pines alone occur . Now the kitchen - middens tell us much of the natural history of Denmark in the early Stone period ; and a curious confirmation of the fact that Denmark like Norway was then ...
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