Avicennia spp. and Rhizopora spp. are found on more western coasts that have a fluvio-marine influence. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These mammaliferous beds have been proved by Mr. Lyell to be older than the fluvio-marine, or Norwich crag, in which remains of the mastodon, rhinoceros, and horse have been discovered; and still older than the fresh-water pleistocene deposits, from which the remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros, ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)
The fluvio-marine series usually terminates upwards in finely laminated sands and clays without fossils, on which reposes the boulder clay. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Mr. Gunn informs me that the vertebrae of two distinct whales were found in the fluvio-marine beds at Bacton, and that one of them, shown to Professor Owen, is said by him to imply that the animal was 60 feet long. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Natchez alluvium were to be decided on conchological data alone, the fluvio-marine beds of Abbeville might rank as a shade older than the loess of Natchez. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
As to the small number of marine shells occurring in the same fluvio-marine series, I have seen none which belonged to extinct species, although one or two have been cited by authors. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
The actual channel in the neighbourhood is now 60 feet deep, but there is probably 10 or 15 feet of stratified sand and gravel at the bottom; so that, should the river deviate again from its course, its present bed might be the receptacle of a fluvio-marine formation 75 feet thick, equal to the former one of ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
In B we find remains of some of the same plants which were enumerated as common in the ancient lignite in 3 prime, such as the yellow water-lily and hornwort, together with some freshwater shells which occur in the same fluvio-marine series 3 prime. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Menchecourt, and it has since been found in two or three contiguous sand-pits, always in the fluvio-marine bed. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Chalk, and below certain fluvio-marine beds, which will be alluded to in the next chapter. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
As a stratum containing exclusively land and freshwater shells usually underlies the fluvio-marine sands at Menchecourt, it seems that the river first prevailed there, after which the land subsided; and then there was an upheaval which raised the country to a greater height than that at which it now stands, after which there was a second sinking, indicated by the position of the peat, as already explained. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
There was, no doubt, time for other modifications in the mammalian fauna between the era of the marine beds, Number 2, Figure 27 (the shells of which imply permanent submergence beneath the sea), and the accumulation of the uppermost of the fluvio-marine, and lignite beds, Number 3 prime, which overlie both Numbers 3 and 2, or the buried forest and the Crag. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
We have seen that all the plants and shells, marine and freshwater, of the forest bed, and associated fluvio-marine strata of Norfolk, are specifically identical with those of the living European flora and fauna; so that if upon such a stratum a deposit of the present period, whether freshwater or marine, should be thrown down, it might lie conformably over it, and contain the same invertebrate fauna and flora. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
The fluvio-marine strata and overlying loam of Menchecourt recur on the opposite or left bank of the alluvial plain of the Somme, at a distance of 2 or 3 miles. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
The numbers since collected preclude all idea of their having been brought inland as eatable shells by the fabricators of the flint hatchets found at the bottom of the fluvio-marine sands. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Above the fluvio-marine strata are those designated Number 2 in the section (Figure 16), which are almost devoid of stratification, and probably formed of mud or sediment thrown down by the waters of the river when they overflowed the ancient alluvial plain of that day. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
a bed of gravel underlying the fluvio-marine stratum. b. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
Bed "and fluvio-marine deposits of those same cliffs. ❋ Charles Lyell (1836)
