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IV.—Note on the Fossils from the Glacial Deposits of the North-West Coast of the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. Etheridge
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In a paper, read before the Geological Society of London (June 25, 1873), “ On the Glacial Phenomena of the Long Island or Outer Hebrides,” Mr. James Geikie mentioned the occurrence of two descriptions of stony clay in the Long Island. The first of these deposits or “Bottom Till” occupies the low ground of the island, and is derived from the disintegration chiefly of gneissie rocks, and so far as observation went proved to be unfossiliferous. The other deposit was found in the north of Lewis, along the coast, and consists of two beds of unstratified stony clay containing fragments of shells, the lower resting on rock in situ.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 12 , December 1876 , pp. 552 - 555
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1876

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page 555 note 1 See Carpenter, The Microscope, 5th ed. 1875, p. 389.

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page 555 note * Series of fan-shaped ramifying tubuli seen in shell of Cyprina Islandica.

page 555 note ** A single fan-sliaped mass very highly magnified.