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I.—The Carrara Marbles. A Chapter in the History of Continental Geology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. A. Lebour
G. A. Lebour
Affiliation:
London and Belgium, Lecturer in Geological Surveying in the University of Durham College of Physical Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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The celebrated statuary marbles of Carrara, which have of late I years been universally described as of Jurassic age, have quite recently been shown conclusively to belong to the Carboniferous series, and the steps which have led to the discovery form an instructive illustration of the difficulties which beset Alpine Geology. No one has a better right to relate the history of the classification of the rocks of the Apuan Alps than M. Coquand, and this he is now doing in a series of papers published in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of France. From the first of these we arrive at the following résumé of the various opinions which have been held-from time to time regarding the age of the statuary marbles.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 7 , July 1876 , pp. 289 - 292
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1876

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