"Neocomian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is no greater authority on the pure geology of the subject than Sir Charles Lyell, and this is what he says of the particular case in question. "If the passage seem at present to be somewhat sudden from the flora of the Lower or Neocomian to that of the Upper Cretaceous period, the abruptness of the change will probably disappear when we are better acquainted with the fossil vegetation of the uppermost tracts of the Neocomian and that of the lowest strata of the Gault, or ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes |
