Author: Richard Swainson Fisher

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781333582616

Excerpt from Gazetteer of the State of Maryland: Compiled From the Returns of the Seventh Census of the United States, and Other Official Documents; To Which Is Added, a General Account of the District of Columbia By collecting all the fossils contained in any tertiary deposit, and comparing them with existing species, the geologist is enabled to classify the deposits into one of three great groups. In the lowest deposit or group but few recent species are found. It is thence called the eocene or dawn of recent species. The next above contains a minority of recent species, and is thence called miocene. Over this occurs a deposit containing a majority of recent species, which is called pliocene, and above the last a deposit called the post pliocene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.