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Double Cones, Volcanic

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Geological Miscellany, 1857

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/4/10
Scope and Contents

Printed extract from Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen's Atlas of Etna, note regarding Junghahn's treatment of the double cones of Java and geological sketch of Colanna [presumably Etna], 1857.

Dates: 1857

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Bennie, 27 January 1897

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Identifier: Coll-74 Gen.524/8/46
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from James Bennie sending some specimens of shells from the bottom of a Gayfield Lake. Bennie reports that there was considerable vegetable debris also found at the lake bottom which was probably pondweed and encrustations from the stems of the plants. Numerous ostracod were also found which he has mounted on cards and sent to another party. This layer was 3-4 feet deep. The same layer was not found in the adjacent Broughton Lake.

Dates: 27 January 1897

List of fossil shells from Grand Canary Island, 6 June 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 221-223
Scope and Contents

List of fossil shells on Grand Canary Island from [Samuel Pickworth] Woodward including fossils of fishes and plants,with envelope, 6 June 1856.

Dates: 6 June 1856