RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Geological specimens and descriptions. CUL-DAR39.148. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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92 2742 Pale purple very compact fine grained lightly Calc: Sandstone
93 743 white gypsum & purplish impure non-calc Aluminous do in layers contorted
94 744 Gypsum penetrating Characters of 609 & 623
95 745 do like (609)
96 746 Pure soft gypsum
97 747 Red-purple base with numerous true Cry of white Felds
98 748 Red fine Conglomerate quartzose with white patches which appear owing to a sort of crystall gneiss; one little white patch is transversed by hairs of the red basis.—
99 749 Dull whitish very compact rather hardish & pearly non cryst. Calc-aluminous rock: numerous fractures
100 750 101 751 White cryst Limestone num By impress of shell: specks of Bitumen?
102 752 oyster shell in do
102 753 Blueish compact [amg] fracture Aluminous Limestone
103 754 Bromahand-calcareous fine grained Sandstone ferruginous veins
104 755 Dull purple fine grained calc-sandstone
105 756 Confined mass of white crys Feld contains more perfect foliated cryst & specks of Chlorite?
757. Green base with numerous plates of white Cry. Feld & Crys with agate & green little balls— common. West stops of Cumbra pass.—
758 Granitic base with metallic veins Sand Pedro de Nolasko
759 Balls produced by dripping of Hot Spring Inca Bridge
760. Silicified wood from the wood
762 1 Small shells from 2d station: — Valparaiso
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67. 717 Red pseudo. Brecia crystalline rock do not know nature
68 718 Nature between 653-654 — non calc.—
69 719 numerous Cr of F & Q in a sparing red basis
70 720 glassy harsh-coarse-grained. Clay Slate
71 721 Layers & crystals of feldspar in purple Clay-stone base
72 722 White earth Feld base with patch of more cryst pinkish Feld.—
73 723 apparently a greyish Feldspathic rock granular
74 724 75 725} Salmon-coloured feld rock-compact: with reddish small crystals of feldspar
76 726 Dark bluish rock porph with [acialar] glassy of Feld & olivine?
77 727 Greenish white earthy, rather little friable aluminous substance with broken extraneous particles.—
78 728+ Ore of metal curious what is it?
79 729 [illeg] hard.—
80 730 Like gold ore from Hornillos
81 731 Red basis Porph with Cry quartz & Feldspar & bits of a greenstone?—
82 732 Grey semi=crystall Feld rock with Cement or Conglom: structure
83 733 Feldspath rock? tinged blackish with Hornblende?
84 734 rock altered with metallic ferruginous veins
85 735 yellow fine grained Limestone: effervesces slowly Magnesia??—
86 736 Pale Lilac base with numerous crys of Feld white & black mica
87 737 {Greyish purple stone composed of little Cry specks of white Carb of Lime & earthy natural mem: on stone of Copiapo!!! & red crystal & Amgd with Cry. Carb of Lime
88 738 Coarse hard red Conglom cement Calcareous
89 739 white Cry. Feld base & little soft ferrug patch with numer Crys of white Feldspar & scales of black mica.
90 740 Dull Purplish calcareous Crystall aspect sandstone fine-grained
741. Basis like (737) with white Calc specks on Amyg with red Crystals.
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