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Patagonia
Prov. 9:18
"But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
SYRIA Palmyra (6)
Lavender skies over the magnificent remains of Palmyra tell the story of a once bustling metropolis in the heart of the Syrian Desert.
- Floral Leather Tapestry Rug
Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile
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“Geology and Paleontology” (use it with a grain of salt and only as chess
dialectically): “It was in the sandstones of this shelving beach, near Corriguen
Aike,that we discovered the rich deposit of fossil bones mentioned above. At this
point, as at most places throughout this beach, erosion has taken place along
the bedding planes, so that over considerable areas the surface of the beach
represents essentially the same geological horizon. Atthis particular locality
the dark green sandstones in which the bones were imbedded bore evidence of
having been deposited over the flood plain of some stream or shallow lake. On
walking about over the surface at lowtide, there could be seen the skulls and
skeletons of those prehistoric beasts protruding from the rock in varying
degrees of preservation. At one point the skull and skeleton of Nesodon would
appear, at another might be seen the limbs or perhaps the teeth of the giant Astrapotheriimi
just protruding from the rock, while a little farther on a skull and jaws of the
little Icochilus grinned curiously, as though delighted with the prospect of
being thus awakened from its long and uneventful sleep. On one hand, the muzzle
of a skull of one of the larger carnivorous marsupials looked forth, with jaws
fully extended and glistening teeth, the characteristic snarl of the living
animal still clearly indicated, while at frequent
intervals the carapace of a Glyptodon
raised its highly sculptured shell, like a rounded dome set with miniature
rosettes, just above the surface of the sandstones. Throughout eighteen years
spent almost constantly in collecting fossil vertebrates, during which time I
have visited most of the more important localities of the western hemisphere, I
have never seen anything to approach this locality near Corriguen Aike in the
wealth of genera, species and individuals. The bones of these animals were not the
only records preserved of their former existence, for at certain places, on looking
across the surface of the sandstone, one could see their fossil footprints. At
one locality especially favorable, where the erosion had evidently taken place
along a single bedding plane over a considerable area, a series of tracks was
seen extending uninterruptedly for a distance of about one hundred feet, making
it quite possible to determine the exact stride of the animal. The presence of
these tracks is conclusive evidence that these animals roamed over, lived and
died in this very region during the time when the sandstones and shales which
contain them were being deposited, and precludes the possibility of the
deposits having been laid down over the bottom of a great lake, or any other
large and stable body
of water. The origin of these deposits will
be fully discussed when we come to treat of the geology of the region. John Bell Hatcher Princeton Expedition to the
Patagonia Vol.I Ch.IV
n.
The underlying structure on which something is built; a base or foundation:
“profound dislocations throughout the entire warp and woof of the American economy” (David A. Stockman).
A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure:
contexture,
fabric,
fiber,
texture,
web.
See be.
The underlying structure or foundation of something, as in
He foresaw great changes in the warp and woof of the nation's economy. This expression, used figuratively since the
second half of the 1500s, alludes to the threads that run lengthwise ( warp) and crosswise (
woof) in a woven fabric.
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