Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen
Dr Donald, who sailed on board the “Active” in the voyage of 1892–3, has given a short account of the discovery of a number of fossils by Captain Larsen on Seymour Island, to the north of Snow Hill, in January 1893 ( Geographical Journal , vol. ii. p. 438, 1893). Some of these fossils were sent to P...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0370164600050987 2024-03-03T08:48:45+00:00 Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen Sharman, George Newton, E. T. 1899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600050987 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0370164600050987 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh volume 22, page 58-61 ISSN 0370-1646 General Engineering journal-article 1899 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600050987 2024-02-08T08:38:27Z Dr Donald, who sailed on board the “Active” in the voyage of 1892–3, has given a short account of the discovery of a number of fossils by Captain Larsen on Seymour Island, to the north of Snow Hill, in January 1893 ( Geographical Journal , vol. ii. p. 438, 1893). Some of these fossils were sent to Professor James Geikie, and at his request we gave an account of them to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, June 4, 1894 ( Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. , vol. xxxvii. p. 707; see also Dr Murray, Geog. Journ. , vol. iii. p. 11, note, 1894). The fossils do not appear to have been found in situ . Captain Larsen reports of the locality “that he found no traces of vegetation there, the surface being formed of volcanic débris and numbers of these fossils” (Dr Donald's notice, p. 438, loc. cit. ). The condition of the fossils, however, would seem to indicate that the mother rock from which they were derived could not be at any great distance from the spot where they were picked up. As the few species of Mollusca represented by these fossils seemed to us to find their nearest allies among Lower Tertiary forms, and to be near to certain species known from Patagonia (Darwin, Geol. Obs. Sth. Am. , 1846), we were led to conclude that these new discoveries indicated the occurrence of Lower Tertiary rocks in Seymour Island. Article in Journal/Newspaper Seymour Island Cambridge University Press Patagonia Seymour ENVELOPE(-56.767,-56.767,-64.283,-64.283) Seymour Island ENVELOPE(-56.750,-56.750,-64.283,-64.283) Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 22 58 61 |
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Dr Donald, who sailed on board the “Active” in the voyage of 1892–3, has given a short account of the discovery of a number of fossils by Captain Larsen on Seymour Island, to the north of Snow Hill, in January 1893 ( Geographical Journal , vol. ii. p. 438, 1893). Some of these fossils were sent to Professor James Geikie, and at his request we gave an account of them to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, June 4, 1894 ( Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. , vol. xxxvii. p. 707; see also Dr Murray, Geog. Journ. , vol. iii. p. 11, note, 1894). The fossils do not appear to have been found in situ . Captain Larsen reports of the locality “that he found no traces of vegetation there, the surface being formed of volcanic débris and numbers of these fossils” (Dr Donald's notice, p. 438, loc. cit. ). The condition of the fossils, however, would seem to indicate that the mother rock from which they were derived could not be at any great distance from the spot where they were picked up. As the few species of Mollusca represented by these fossils seemed to us to find their nearest allies among Lower Tertiary forms, and to be near to certain species known from Patagonia (Darwin, Geol. Obs. Sth. Am. , 1846), we were led to conclude that these new discoveries indicated the occurrence of Lower Tertiary rocks in Seymour Island. |
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Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen |
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Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen |
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Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen |
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Notes on some Additional Fossils collected at Seymour Island, Graham's Land, by Dr Donald and Captain Larsen |
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