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...spring series on Saturday of this week is to be conducted by Professor Emerson, of Amherst College. Leaving the Boston and Albany station at 7.15 p. m., the party will spend the night at the "Norwood" in Northampton. the first thing visited on Saturday will be the fossil fish beds at the foot of Mt. To by and the outcrop of quartz schist and amphibolite, these being "buried peaks," which the glacial scouring has revealed below the Triassic conglomerate. Fragments of these rocks may be traced in the conglomerate for miles southward. This is in the centre of the interesting...
...Department of Geology is preparing to send a party to Gay's Head, Martha's Vineyard, during the April recess, to examine the formation of the cliffs on that headland. The clay and sand strata of this section abound in fossil bones of the order of Cetaceans, to which the whale and the walrus belong. There are also leaf-beds of a representative of the order to which the gigantic red-woods of California belong...
Geological Conference. Mr. F. P. Gulliver, "The Ice-sheet on the Newtonville Sand-plain": Mr. T. A. Jaggar, "Fossil Ripple-marks"; Mr. J. F. Spurr, "The Iron Region at Torbrook, N. S." Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Mr. F. P. Gulliver, "The Ice-sheet on the Newtonville Sand-plain": Mr. T. A. Jaggar, "Fossil Ripple-marks"; Mr. J. E Spurr, "The Iron Region at Torbrook, N. S." Geological Laboratory...
Princeton will send another scientific expedition out west this summer to find fossil remains of prehistoric animals...