"Cretaceous period" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the opinion of Von Buch and M. d'Orbigny, the two formations belong to the same age. I must here add, that Professor E. Forbes, who has examined my specimens from this place and from the Peuquenes range, has likewise a strong impression that they indicate the Cretaceous period, and probably an early epoch in it: so that all the palaeontologists who have seen these fossils nearly coincide in opinion regarding their age. The limestone, however, with these fossils here lies at ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin |
