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I.—Banded and Brecciated Concretions1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

When we find at the sides of veins, the veinstone rent into laminæ, as I tried to represent in Plate XX. of Vol. IV. it is easy to think of the fracture as violent, and of the disruption of the vein as sudden.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1869

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Footnotes

1

For former papers see Geol. Mag., 1867, Vol. IV. pp 337 and 481; also 1868, Vol. V. pp. 12, 156, and 208.

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page 531 note 1 Of course I do not vouch for any so wide generalization as this absolutely. If ever one ventures to do such a thing, the next stone one takes up on a dealer's counter is sure to he an exception to the announced law; but I am confident that any mineralogist can fortify the statement from his own experience quite enough to justify our reasoning upon it.