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CHAPTER XI THE LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL

complicated form of the suture-line, and studying the form of the liquid film which constitutes the corôÙreôÙsponôÙding surface minimae areae.

A vintage illustration showing a coiled ammonite shell from side and edge views, with a detailed diagram of its sutures.

In certain Ammonites the septal outline is further complicated in another way. Superposed upon the usual sinuous outline, with its 〜lobes〝 and 〜saddles,〝 we have here a minutely ramified, or arborescent outline,

A black-and-white illustration of the complex, foliated suture line pattern of an ammonite shell.

in which all the branches terminate in wavy, more or less circular arcs,〔looking just like the 〘landscape marble〙 from the Bristol Rhaetic. We have

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