"Vivipara" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sussex Marble, occur in the Weald Clay, almost entirely composed of a species of Paludina, closely resembling the common P. vivipara of English rivers. Shells of the Cypris, a genus of Crustaceans mentioned in Chapter 3 as abounding in lakes and ponds, are also plentifully scattered through the clays of the Wealden, sometimes producing, like plates of mica, a ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
