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eventually accumulated into a layer which he called 'The Nummulosphere'. He additionally proposed that all the Earth's crustal rocks were subsequently derived from this "nummulosphaeric" layer and in his books he included illustrations of supposed nummulitic textures he had observed in granites and
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It is likely that his important work on the coralline sponges was dismissed by his contemporaries due to his having published a book containing unconventional ideas about the history of life on earth. This was the self-published
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even meteorites. In his later years he admitted that this was erroneous, and that he had been misled by "the architecture of protoplasm".
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The Nummulosphere: an account of the Organic Origin of so-called Igneous Rocks and Abyssal Red Clays
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Kirkpatrick published a limited number of papers on the
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rediscovered the coralline sponges in the reefs of the
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British spongiologist, cnidariologist and bryozoologist
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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