Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts: With Special Reference to the Mode of Formation of the Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea
Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine, and Adjoining Districts: With Special Reference to the Mode of Formation of the Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...the limestone cliffs, we observe that the rock is penetrated by numerous borings of Teredo, though the shell is seldom left in the perforation. We are here evidently standing on the ancient sea-margin, and at an elevation of 220 feet above the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The presence of the beach has ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...the limestone cliffs, we observe that the rock is penetrated by numerous borings of Teredo, though the shell is seldom left in the perforation. We are here evidently standing on the ancient sea-margin, and at an elevation of 220 feet above the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The presence of the beach has been detected in other places along the hills by Dr. Schweinfurth, and the Teredo borings have also been observed by him in the limestone platform on which is built the Mosque of Mehemet Ali. The level of this sea-beach corresponds pretty nearly with that on the opposite bank of the Nile Valley. It is clear, from its relations to the solid limestone strata, that the Eocene beds had been elevated, and worn back into a line of bold cliffs, marking the limits of the Pliocene Sea in this direction, and that the channel of the Nile Valley itself had been 'Geol. Mag., ' No. 241, p. 291. These terraces are indicated on Zittel's map; they are outside and beyond the reach of the present river. They seem also to be represented in David Robert's beautiful drawings of the ruins of Thebes and Carnac t Supra cit.% p. 161. hollowed out previous to this epoch. And as water finds its own level, we may feel sure that the waters of the Pliocene Sea bathed the flanks of the Egyptian Hills, overspreading the plains of Lower Egypt, and isolating Africa from Asia, as represented in the sketch map, p. 72. (d) Sues.--That the Isthmus of Suez is an old sea-bed has long been known; and was abundantly demonstrated during the progress of the excavations for the Canal. Between the head of the gulf and the Great Bitter Lake beds of recent limestone--somewhat oolitic in texture, and known as 'miliolite'--had to be cut through above the level of highwater mark. These beds..
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1886, Richard Bentle & Son for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Publisher:
Richard Bentle & Son for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Published:
1886
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Very Good. Size: 4to 11"-13" tall; Published in London by Richard Bentley & Son, for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration, 1886, Good condition overall. Brownish burgundy cloth covers, blind-stamped edges and borders, gilt-stamped lettering (saying Western Palestine) and illustrations to cover, still sharp and distinct, with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and illustration to spine, being the official logo of the Palestine Exploration Fund). Bookplate from the New-Church Theological School inside front flap, their ink-stamp at title page. Hand-colored map, four-paneled, also at frontis, one fold split, creased, outlining the Geological map of Lower Egypt, Arabia Petraea and Palestine, drawn by the author. Eight-paneled map bound in inside rear flap, titled "Map of the Wady el Arabah from the surveys of Major Kitchener, " and then reduced by Major George Armstrong. Several other folding maps bound in at rear, only very mildly worn or soiled, though one of them shows a split and is detached in two halves. viii + 2 + [3]-145 pp., including index, with frontis illustration and a folding map, and several additional folding maps sewn in at rear. The Palestine Exploration Fund exists to this day, being a British society based in London but that founded back in 1865, shortly after the completion of a key ordnance survey of Jerusalem. A The P.E.F. is apparently the oldest known organization in the world that was founded so as to study the "Levant, " a.k.a. Palestine. Scarcely available to the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line, and only scattered copies available in academic libraries.
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