New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-18

period, and thus 10 general way cou.le.ss - Cot
And more than this, they unrsveled With epo-sssr1
skill The cop'orti1ns among tho Appae hans -; Ne
order out Of confusion, and eluc;daia, nr;,s1S',
nouDtaln-u akrg whieh Is almost universal ,o K
rlca'ion. They showed that The laran, DsvsS
and CaTboBiierous streia which were crisin.ns,,N
out IN horzoHia 9, ers we're afierward pres,sIa~c
the north westward, AMI folded up, til the I'D, 80
Of mountain hi. hi, and thus the Aooalschi.s.
their origin; snd also that by the escapin, -. ~
those times OF revolution excessive strta ser. o.
or even q ysiallized-
This key soon opened % us : know.esse AN
Epgai geology. msinly through tie labor. az ~
Hall. and ako Prof II ID. Rogers, fclowns =. -
survey of Pres. Hitchcock; and nov a.eas so-,.s-
primary rocks, gral lie, gnsss nnca-schlsi snd -
ialline lime stones, regapied the olds., crvN
hzsiions of a cooling globe, are c0nh1onty a., -
as for tie most part no older than the S1a,s
Devonian and Certoiiicrous beds OF New.Ywt ~
Pennsylvania
Let US how briefly review the Succession az 49,,
in Anericnn Geological history.
The Azoic ase ended, as was observed, ia rs,.,
of exieI siye meiamorplIC action aud dstafban.s. 4
oiLer words in a epst revolution AZ us chez ,os.
rarts Of The con inent left as dry land, vita ~
pear TO have pmaiucd a. a general ting IN ~
times: FOR no Subsequent ST. a.a cover them a.
are re- ion in Nortaeru New York. of1eTs abop, -
beyonc Lake Sup, nor, aud lsrse territory acres A.
continent from LabTaror westward ne reoo ynifoS1
Messrs. Whitney and Foster, and the GeOios<s
Canada.
Tie Silurian or Molluscan Age Dex. OPENS r.
low, 81 rock is a sardst ne one of the mos, videh
speed rocks OF the continent, stretching fror Ne.
England and Canada south and vesi 20 reaching b
,Ond the Missssippi-how far IL not kGowa. Add Il,
first leaf in the record of he IL like ie page % 4
whole volume long afe' wsrd completed; for the \
turt Of tie history is here declared In few corga
hensve snunciations.
l. The rock from its thin, even layers and veryr
extent shows the wide sction of the ocean IN die "a
uting and working the SANDS Of which Iva
maze; and The ocean ever aitcrwsld wde the H.
active agency in rock. king
,. Moreover. ripple marks such rs sre made 90 q
present rea-shores or ia shulos waters, abound ia \
rock both through the e~st and west, and thee a
other evidences also of mod d. pth aud OF oner,s
land. ihey all announce lie wonder nj fat that eve
Their, in that early day, when life flst began TO ia
Up lie globe, the continent bad It's eNisteooe--no,
embryo, hut even OF ulgr0wn eXieGt, and the VIA.
future record i but a working u.on The sane bon
aid essen ia ~ within The limits II j. true t
but little of 10 above The sea, but equally tus M.
little OF il was at ereat depths in the ocean
3 Again. in The remains of life which .ppesr IN q.
earIesr lsyers of this primal rock three OF tho fo.
great II nci OF Il animal kingdom represents
Molluscs, IrloD'tes among A'iculaiss, Cocsls 4,
CriIoids among Radaies-a sufficient r'presenisuoe
OF LIE for litt-page. The Ne s-York beds Of a.
rock had Afforded ou few Molhscs, nut the iupr
tcafiOhs of Ow, in iscoustr have added the ots
fri"es; and this diversity Of forms is coair ned y
Barrahoe in his Bo.emiaD rer earches. Amonss
genera, while the most OF tbom were ancient fra
that aft, rwsTd became extinct nd through saoee
nl "a es ilOusGncs OF other genefa appeared and d
a, p,sItd-ile very earliest aud mort universal w
on G that now exisfs--ihe genus Lmgaia-ihaseos
Meeting the extremes of time, and d clarine mos b 4
pressivey tie Il, ~ OF creation. Mr. HUT, u al
Canada Geological Survey, recently discovered lag
n ancient shell had The anomalous chemcsl ccnx-
tuition of bones being mbinl. p osphaie of lnle q |
70 ri "A
saue compositiou--a further announce Dens Of d |
harmony between the earliest and latest events \
geoio, zeal bio Dry.
This earliest sandstone, called in New-York b.
Poisdam sandstone, and the associate oaki(enu
ssudtock mark off the First Period Of the MOlusca
Aye, the POI sDAY PERIOD, as tmly BE- called.
Mkt followed the TRsSTos PERIoD--a pefad
lnesones, tihe Tfeuton limestone auio theol, sqg
10 the earlier beds in geographical limits sod tar n
abundant IN bic, foe some OF the beds ase lifer&i
shells ecd cOials packe down in uuk; yet the spe
were new 10 tie Ienod, the former lie having pss
away; and even before the Iron on punol clos
there were one or two epo his OF dest uc'lOn Of d
followed by lew creations. TIE form tlon OF hs
lin esione beds indicated an lbcnase IN the d5pAl
the Continental seas-an instance OF the "a lila loo
level 10 which the Esrth's crust was almost lct
in. ly suLect through all Geological ases until
present.
After he Trenton period another change cameN
the Continent, and ay' rocks or sl'ales were i0s
IN thick del osis III New OK sho 10 luo cvuNr-f
Utica Slate and HudsoD River shaes-shhe nat
stones were continued III the West This Is the hr|
son PERIOD, and with i the LOrer Sflarsdn oreL
The seas wee then swept Of their life alaD, and
abrupt transition took lace both in species and rod,
cong omeratt covered large pat oiNew YOn a.
the : ates south its material evld Oce Of
etoch of violence and csiasropbe; and with his 3
post q @ 7 Dyer lSHBr,aH begins
The Upper Silurian had ALEC iis three great perioa
the NIAGARA, the OsoSDAGA, the Lower HslDnl
BgEG and many an ,ordinae epochs-each ono chsI
sctelizeO by It's peculiar organic remains; esch Ell
del &C of the nearly quite universal devastation ~
preceded il, and of the act OF omblpoenee that rel
sthitd life on the globe; each, too, orarog eydee
OF shallow or only m Jderaiey deep waters when nf
were formed; and the OLOudaga pcriJt-tbe pen
OF the New York salt rockr-telling of half cnlery
coniiI emf Of cODs idFrable extent
Aroiber deyas alton took place and then opeoeIl
De NerIeuil has shown, the DevoniaD Age, or AgiI
Fishes. Ii commenced libe the Upper SIla ian, si
come sanosi ones, evidence Of a tine OF vhyee
ese WIRE followed by another grit-r0ck who's n
organic remains show dat life had airs ady reep/sri
Then another change-a chai &c evidently N Ssa9
waieT-end limestones were forming over he cEs
neni, from tie Hudson far westward; the whosEl
face became an exDberant cOralreef tar exceeding
extent, If not in bnli 4ncy, any modern coral sesi
such Was portion, at least, OF the UPPER hEL0nt
BERG Period.
Aesip, there was n general devastation, esfE
not e udct Of the former life in the wide seas
where were coral reefs, especially in the morsi
en- portion OF the f0niii ei tai s.as sasds on~ y
shhlts DC, umuated for thousands of feet IN TIL kS'
with Iaey a Thin layer of limestone. Thus 20
tie HAalfIov CHEMUNG and CATTsKILL pisd
the DtvonaD Ase. The life Of these regsns, w
in sono epocLs was exceedingly prOtuse, su
or four timts destroyed and rel LEVIED not reneF
recreation OF lie same specis, but Of o'heni y
although mostly like the carrier in genera, ye %
having characlefisti; marks ol The period 10 giN.
bcloI gcd. AID willie these DegOniaa periods
psssIg, The drs land plants appeared foreehen@'f
age Of yerdure u 1t to follow.
Then ONE vast beds of con9omerate, q ps5,
opening OF q new chatter in the record a. berrE
cOuvelirnl 10 place tie beginning OF tie Carlpnnas
Oh The Age Of AcROGESs. SAN ,iore and 'han
ceeoed reaching ihitkress in Ne9-Jerse ~o
sylvaDia according "a Prof. Roger, OF thgusn
Get; while 10 the basin Of zoe Onio sOd hiss1r
in tie cour.e Of this ere. the earboni'ercas