Crossword-Solution: LITHOLOGICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lithological | a. | Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents. |
| Lithological | a. | Of or pertaining to lithology. |
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| relating to lithology, the study of rocks | 1 answer |
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These demonstrate that, although the geologist finds here none of those characters of lithological structure and curiously diversified organic remains which enable him to fix the epochs of succession in the crust of the earth in other quarters of the globe, the interior of South Africa is unquestionably a grand type of a region which has preserved its ancient terrestrial conditions during a very long period, unaffected by any changes except those which are dependent on atmospheric and meteoric influences.
But, although, in fact, some formations may be continuous over districts as large as half of Europe, or even more, yet most of them either terminate wholly within narrower limits, or soon change their lithological character.
But we recognise the reality of the last-mentioned influence, when we contrast the whole oolitic series of England with that of parts of the Jura, Alps, and other distant regions, where, although there is scarcely any lithological resemblance, yet some of the same fossils remain peculiar in each country to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Oolite formations respectively.
These beds were formerly classed, on purely lithological grounds, as the base of the Lingula Flags, but Messrs.
The Reuss has also stamped the lithological character of its own mountainous region upon the lower part of its hydrographical basin by covering it with its peculiar Alpine drift.