Conchiferous

Chili, or anywhere on the western coast of South America, naturally led Mr. Darwin to the conclusion that "where the bed of the sea is either stationary or rising, circumstances are far less favourable than where the level is sinking to the accumulation of conchiferous strata of sufficient thickness and extension to resist the average vast amount of denudation." ❋ Various (N/A)

The absence of any deposits of importance containing recent shells in Chili, or anywhere on the western coast of South America, naturally led Mr. Darwin to the conclusion that ‘where the bed of the sea is either stationary or rising, circumstances are far less favourable than where the level is sinking to the accumulation of conchiferous strata of sufficient thickness and extension to resist the average vast amount of denudation. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Amidst the first strata I suffered the watery action to expend itself upon cooling, crystallized masses; and by the time I had got him into the tertiary period, amongst the transition chalks of Maestricht and the conchiferous marls of Gosau, he was ready for a new wife. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

Soc_., vol. vi.] [Footnote 165: See Darwin on the absence of extensive modern conchiferous deposits in South America, _Geological Observations_, pt. iii., ch. v.] ❋ James Orton (1853)

Observations on South America, "1846) deals with the causes of the absence of recent conchiferous deposits on the coasts of South ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)