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| GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS | [1] |
| | Consideration of Fossils | [4] |
| | Chemical and Nebular Hypotheses of the Globe | [15] |
| | Modifications of the Earth’s Surface | [26] |
| ERUPTIVE ROCKS | [30] |
| | Plutonic Eruptions | [31] |
| | Granite | [31] |
| | Syenite | [34] |
| | Protogine | [35] |
| | Porphyry | [37] |
| | Serpentine | [38] |
| | Volcanic Rocks | [39] |
| | Trachytic Formations | [39] |
| | Basaltic Formations | [44] |
| | Volcanic or Lava Formations | [51] |
| | Metamorphic Rocks | [71] |
| | General Metamorphism | [74] |
| THE BEGINNING | [80] |
| PRIMARY EPOCH | [99] |
| | Cambrian Period | [101] |
| | Silurian Period | [102] |
| | Lower Silurian Period | [104] |
| | Upper Silurian Period | [110] |
| | Old Red Sandstone and Devonian Period | [119] |
| | Carboniferous Period | [130] |
| | Carboniferous Limestone | [140] |
| | Coal Measures | [150] |
| | Formation of Coal | [159] |
| | Permian Period | [170] |
| | Permian Rocks | [177] |
| SECONDARY EPOCH | [185] |
| | Triassic, or New Red Period | [185] |
| | New Red Sandstone | [187] |
| | Muschelkalk | [188] |
| | Keuper Period | [199] |
| | Rhætic (Penarth) Period | [207] |
| | Jurassic Period | [211] |
| | Liassic Period | [211] |
| | Oolitic Sub-Period | [243] |
| | Lower Oolite Fauna | [244] |
| | ————— Rocks | [249] |
| | Middle Oolite | [255] |
| | Upper Oolite | [265] |
| | Cretaceous Period | [275] |
| | Lower Cretaceous Period | [286] |
| | Upper Cretaceous Period | [300] |
| TERTIARY EPOCH | [312] |
| | Eocene Period | [315] |
| | Miocene Period | [336] |
| | Pliocene Period | [357] |
| QUATERNARY EPOCH | [378] |
| | Post-Pliocene | [378] |
| | European Deluges | [422] |
| | Glacial Period | [435] |
| | Creation of Man | [464] |
| | Asiatic Deluge | [480] |
| EPILOGUE | [489] |
| TABLE AND DIAGRAM OF BRITISH SEDIMENTARY AND FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA | [493] |