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Not only may any kind of fossiliferous rocks occur next to the Archæan, but even the "youngest" may be so metamorphosed and crystalline as to resemble exactly in this respect the so-called "oldest" rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference

"fossiliferous," or shell limestone, and have drawn the erroneous inference that the animal matter once contained in those shells originated petroleum; but no fish oil ever contained paraffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference

Agassiz came and discovered fossiliferous America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference

In the very earliest fossiliferous rocks of all, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The littoral zone contains the only fossiliferous strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

"You fossiliferous-headed old chump," he howled, exasperatedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

Given McCain's fossiliferous nature, the claim just might be true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lieberman To Break Vow Not To Attack Obama Tonight] Reference

As Bayrou she showed that she had guts by confronting her fossiliferous left wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayrou: how to lose and win in France] Reference

It is not very fossiliferous, but the following are found: — Rhynconella Concinna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Rich fossiliferous deposits are found for 60 km north from Allia Bay and to 20 km inland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lake Turkana National Parks, Kenya] Reference

It is crystalline, but yet fossiliferous, very hard, and not deteriorating much on exposure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

The three great divisions of fossiliferous rocks are called the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference

Girvan province are highly fossiliferous, but the order of succession is determined by the graptolites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

The escarpments are locally highly fossiliferous and ancient glacial striations are visible in Wadi Khalayta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference

Given how highly fossiliferous the landscape is in the area, it'd be horrible to see the research center shut down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Museum in Danger!!!] Reference

The great classificatory groups are almost as distinct in early fossiliferous strata as they are at the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

And the quarry is really fossiliferous, too: In many areas, a cubic meter of rock produces 5 or 10 really nice bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

There was now a marked change in the geology, and fossiliferous beds, which for a long time had been absent, appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

It has been truly observed, that when we arrange the fossiliferous formations in chronological order, they constitute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

He never finds crystalline, non-fossiliferous rocks which have not been more or less removed from their original position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference

No other abundantly fossiliferous late Ice Age formation encompasses such an impressive and important span of geologic time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Above the highly fossiliferous Barton Clay there is a sandy series with few fossils; these are the Headon Hill or Barton Sands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

The fossiliferous rocks that formed the primeval sea-beds could only be deposited by the abrasion from the anterior and higher rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference

In the extreme south of the county certain minor subdivisions appear which probably underlie the lowest fossiliferous beds containing the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

You can't, for instance, use oxygen isotope ratios from fossiliferous limestone as a paleo-temperature proxy if the limestone has been heated too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs] Reference

The non-occurrence of such a general convulsion is proved by the perfect horizontality now retained by some of the most ancient fossiliferous strata throughout wide areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

The older fossiliferous strata exhibit almost equal evidence of the operation of a powerful disturbing force, though sometimes found in their original horizontal position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference

Despite these modifications in the original groupings of the strata, it is recognized that Barrande "made Bohemia classic ground for the study of the oldest fossiliferous formations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Sandstone and limestone suggest other worlds upon which occur processes like geological processes; but limestone, as a fossiliferous substance, is of course especially of the unchosen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

A scion of that race, whose bones are found in our fossiliferous caverns, co-eval with the mammoth and prehistoric man, he, if any of our existing animals, may boast of “blue blood in his veins.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Finally, a difficulty exists as to the reason of the absence of rich fossiliferous deposits in the oldest strata -- if life was then as abundant and varied as, on the Darwinian theory, it must have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

About a dozen men, with little tables before them, are dispersed over the latter part of the ascent, and keep tempting you with "fossiliferous specimens of the oolite formation," "tertiary," "silurian," "saurian,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

The highly fossiliferous limestones of the Trenton tell of clear water and abundant life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Among the richest of the fossiliferous strata to which I have alluded are the books of Judges and Samuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study] Reference

Captain Mayne's command for Magellan's Straits some years ago should explore a fossiliferous deposit at the Gallegos River?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

York of an old fossiliferous era, remembered only in some chapter of her ancient history, but young, breathing, living New York, as she exists to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference

The north-east Vindhya (called Kymore), on the other hand, consists of nearly horizontal beds of sandstone, overlying inclined beds of non-fossiliferous limestone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference