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II.—On some Columnar Sandstone in Saxon Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Walter Keeping
Walter Keeping
Affiliation:
Late Professor of Geology in the University College of Wales.
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Extract

One of the most beautiful examples of prismatic jointing that we know of in a sedimentary rock has lately come under my notice whilst travelling in N.E. Germany.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 10 , October 1879 , pp. 437 - 441
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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References

page 437 note 1 Geognostische Skizzen aus der Sachsische Schweiz und ihrer Umgebung, 1858, pp. 30–31.

page 437 note 2 I am indebted to Herr Deichmiiller for an account of this description by A. von Gutbier.

page 440 note 1 Quite a distinct thing from the bedding of successive lava flows. See Prof. T. G. Bonney, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxxii. p. 145

page 441 note 1 Described by the Rev. J. M. Mello, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 701, and Geol. Mag. Vol. VII. p. 520.

page 441 note 2 Volcanos of Central France, p. 9.