RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1851.10. Lyell tells me that under the Potsdam Sandstone with footsteps there are unconformable - ripple-marked - non-metamorphosed strata. CUL-DAR205.9.241. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1

NOTE: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].


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Oct /51/ Lyell tells me that under the Potsdam Sandstone with footsteps there are unconformable - ripple-marked - non-metamorphosed strata.

Some = new Fish in middle Silurian described at Cincinnati American Association.

Study Purbeck beds - lapse of time most, most wonderful, with no evidence in mineralogical changes

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