I.—Some Notes on the Geology of the Bermuda Islands

R. Ashington Bullen

doi:10.1017/S0016756800116371

I.—Some Notes on the Geology of the Bermuda Islands

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R. Ashington Bullen

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The geology of the Bermuda group of islands has been so exhaustively treated by Professor Verrill, Dr. Alexander Agassiz, and Lieutenant (afterwards General) Nelson (in what will always be the classic memoir on the subject) that it may seem presumptuous for another description to appear. However, as there are some new facts to record, and nothing has yet appeared in the GeologicalMagazine on the geology of Bermuda, a paper may be not altogether out of place.

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Information: Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 9 , September 1911 , pp. 385 - 395

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800116371 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 385 note 1} Plates XXI–III will appear in October with Part II of text.

^{page 386 note 1} Thomson, Wyville, Voyage of the “Challenger”, vol. i, p. 105Google Scholar. Also Agassiz, A., A Visit to the Bermudas in 1894, pl. iiGoogle Scholar (q.v.).

^{page 386 note 2} Student's Lyell, ed. Judd, , p. 501Google Scholar.

^{page 387 note 1} E.Verrill, A., “The Bermuda Islands: Geology”: Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., vol. xii, p. 55Google Scholar.

^{page 387 note 2} Voyage of the “Challenger”, vol. i, p. 307Google Scholar.

^{page 387 note 3} A Visit to the Bermudas in 1894, p. 221Google Scholar. “Captain Nelson was the first to call attention to the asolian character of the rocks of the Bahamas and Bermudas. This character saute aux yeux in every direction.”

^{page 387 note 4} “The Geology of the Bermudas”: Trans. Geol. Soc, ser. II, vol. v, pt. i, p. 104.Google Scholar

^{page 388 note 1} A Field Officer, Bermuda, 1857, pp. 31–2Google Scholar.

^{page 388 note 2} Nelmes′, Bermuda Guide, p. 54Google Scholar.

^{page 388 note 3} Verrill, op. cit., p. 117.

^{page 392 note 1} Verrill, , “The Bermuda Islands: Geology”: Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., vol. xii, pp. 490, 493Google Scholar.

^{page 392 note 2} Agassiz, A., op. cit., p. 236.Google Scholar

^{page 392 note 3} The thickness was 8 inches according to Goldie, Lecture on the Geological Formation of Bermuda, 1893, pp. 14, 15.

^{page 392 note 4} Op. cit., p. 73.

^{page 393 note 1} Verrill, , “The Bermuda Islands: Geology”: Trans. Conn. Aead. Arts Sci., vol. xii, p. 189Google Scholar.

^{page 393 note 2} Op. cit., pp. 76, 190.

^{page 393 note 3} Agassiz, A., op. cit., p. 225Google Scholar.

^{page 394 note 1} Nelson, , “The Geology of the Bermudas”: Trans. Geol. Soc., ser. II, vol. v, pt. i, p. 112, saysGoogle Scholar, “It seemed difficult at first to account for these large shells (Turbo pica) being found on heights where from their weight it was impossible to suppose they had been carried by the wind; but a solution may be found in the habits of the soldier-crab, which on more than one occasion I have seen running about in these shells.” See Verrill, , “Geology of Bermuda,” p. 197Google Scholar, with picture from life of a land hermit-crab in a fossil shell of Livona pica.

^{page 394 note 2} I have one specimen of Livona pica, found on the present beach, which has evidently weathered out of the Paget Eoek and fallen to the beach.

^{page 394 note 3} Verrill, , op. cit., p. 195Google Scholar.

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