 | 1880 - 1104 pages
...mountain face, rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the. columns of a ruined temple. On the more gentle, slopes farther down, but where it...us to be the shattered remains of a recent forest. grained sandstones. Higher np conglomerates occnr, and still higher coarse conglomerates and breccias... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1883 - 990 pages
...mountain face, rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of a ruined temple. On the more gentle slopes farther down, but where it...one of the steep spurs that project from the main wall, the strata were found to consist, toward the base, of shales and finegrained sandstones. Higher... | |
 | Albert Charles Seward - Paleobotany - 1898 - 484 pages
...Ameythryst mountain " rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of a ruined temple. On the more gentle slopes farther down, but where it...supposed by us to be the shattered remains of a recent forest5." Marsh4 and i There is a splendid silicified tree stem from Tasmania of Tertiary age several... | |
 | Pan American Union - America - 1914 - 1130 pages
...mountain face, rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of a ruined temple. On the more gentle slopes farther down, but where it...a few pines, the petrified trunks fairly cover the su-face, and were at first supposed by us to be shattered remains of a recent forest." These trunks... | |
 | Paleobotany - 1877 - 484 pages
...Ameythryst mountain " rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of a ruined temple. On the more gentle slopes farther down, but where it...to be the shattered remains of a recent forest*." Marsh4 and 1 There is a splendid silicified tree stem from Tasmania of Tertiary age several feet in... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pages
...mountain face, rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of a ruine i temple. On the more gentle slopes farther down, but where it is still too steep to support vegeta' ion, save a few pines, the petrified trunks fairly cover the surface, and were at first supposed... | |
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... but to turn our attention to the cliffs on the right hand to discover a multitude of the bleached trunks of the ancient forests. In the steeper middle portion of the mountain face, rows of upright trunks stand out on the ledges like the columns of... 