The geotope profile consists of geological succession deposits from several hundred millions of years.
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Jackson s study of the geological succession below the Kinder Scout grit, in which he demonstrated the presence of the Namurian Zones by their content of fossil " Goniatites ", was acknowledged by as an important contribution to Carboniferous stratigraphy.
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His lecture on virgin reproduction or parthenogenesis, however, published in 1849, contained the essence of the germ plasm theory, elaborated later by August Weismann and he made several vague statements concerning the geological succession of genera and species of animals and their possible derivation one from another.
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His " first research project was an analysis of Grand Pressigny flint ", a " honey-coloured stone " found in France and traded in the Neolithic period, unusual for " being identifiable by its colour . " Sieveking helped establish that all flint could be " identified by their trace elements, " allowing the mapping of " the distribution of flints from different mines . " He " dug at High Lodge, near Suffolk, " a confusing site which caused geologists and archaeologists some vexation as " the chronological order of the flint tools discovered in the gravel and brickearth deposits apparently contradicts the geological succession ."