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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a deposit containing the fossil remains of fishes in predominant quantity among those of other marine animals. Such beds are also known as bone-beds.
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The rocks, laid bare by the tide, belong to the bed of coarse-grained red sandstone, varying from eighty to a hundred and fifty feet in thickness, which lies between the lower fish-bed and the great conglomerate, and which, in not
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