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XIII. On the Determination of the Position of Strata in Stratified Rocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

L. A. Necker
Affiliation:
Honorary Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the Academy of Geneva, &c.

Extract

It has always appeared to me, that the study of the stratification of rocks and of mountain masses, ought to be one of the principal objects of a geological observer. Many of the most important facts in geology have been ascertained by the consideration of the position of strata. Among these facts, the relation existing between the direction and the inclination of the strata and the unstratified rocks, to whose presence the change in the position of the beds from an horizontal to an inclined, and sometimes even to a vertical situation, is now generally attributed, is one of the most conspicuous. It is only by an accurate determination of the position of the strata in any mountain-chain that the real direction of the line of elevation of that chain or its mineralogical axis may be determined.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1834

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