Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Over twenty years ago, in 1882, I ventured to controvert a doctrine which was at the time maintained with remarkable unanimity by all geologists, and which was taught in all the current textbooks. It was that the ordinary ripple-mark of the seashore was formed by continuous water-currents of some kind; the current of water taking the place and performing the office of the current of wind which ripples the surface of sand-dunes.
page 410 note 1 This is the type-species of Bayle's Goniotenthis. Explication de la carte géologique de la France, publiée par ordre de M. le Ministre des travaux publics, Tome quatrième, Atlas, Première partie—Fossiles principaux des terrains, E. Bayle, 1878, pl. xxiii, figs. 6–8.
page 410 note 2 Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xviii, pt. 4 (1904), p. 271, fig. 12.
page 415 note 1 Proc. Roy. Soc., 1883, p. 2.