Nummulites Sentence Examples
The Eocene beds are marine and contain nummulites.
Certain species of nummulites, which are very common, distinguish the various subdivisions of the Eocene.
Eocene beds, indeed, penetrate farther within the chain, but these are limestones with nummulites or lignite-bearing shales and have nothing in common with the Flysch.
It is overlaid towards the west by similar limestones, which contain nummulites and belong to the Eocene period; and these are followed near the coast by the calcareous sandstone of Philistia, which is referred by Hull to the Upper Eocene.
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