RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1836-1837]. Notebook A: 83e, 84e (excised pages). CUL-DAR42.44. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared by John van Wyhe. RN9
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of Sandra Herbert, The Natural History Museum, English Heritage (Down House Collection) and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).
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effect, a tendency direct (or oblique) outwards may be granted. independent of currents. — mud going out can actually be seen. — (The preservation of dikes & ledges of first-rate importance in showing not subaqueous removal — ??? the difficulty of such preservation certainly is lessened. — Coral flats. argument for Heaping up. — very good this will show effects. — analogous to broad flat sand beach. — De la Beches argument of low coast gaining & high loosing answered by this [sketch] No one can doubt. A−B once formed low coast. —
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Annales des Mines. a translation of paper by rose on Greenstone, diorite, &c most important.: — must be studied. — Scientific Memoirs Edited by Taylor Ehrenbergh on flints in chalk must be studied — though I do not think good p. 411 When discussing concretions Carbonate soda. formed by Ca. of L. & Mur. of Soda mixed. Turner's Chemistry p. 206
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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