Denudation on coast of Patagonia. —great powers of. —of the Portillo range.
Deposits, saline.
Despoblado, valley of.
Detritus, nature of, in Cordillera.
Devonshire, bent cleavage in.
Dikes, in gneiss of Brazil. —near Rio de Janeiro. —pseudo, at Port Desire. —in Tierra del Fuego. —in Chonos archipelago, containing quartz. —near Concepcion, with quartz. —granitic-porphyritic, at Valparaiso. —rarely vesicular in Cordillera. —absent in the central ridges of the Portillo pass. —of the Portillo range, with grains of quartz. —intersecting each other often. —numerous at Copiapo.
Domeyko, M., on the silver mines of Coquimbo. on the fossils of Coquimbo.
D’Orbigny, M. A., on upraised shells of Monte Video. —on elevated shells at St. Pedro. —on elevated shells near B. Ayres. —on elevation of S. Blas. —on the sudden elevation of La Plata. —on elevated shells near Cobija. —on elevated shells near Arica. —on the climate of Peru. —on salt deposits of Cobija. —on crystals of gypsum in salt-lakes. —on absence of gypsum in the Pampean formation. —on fossil remains from Bahia Blanca. —on fossil remains from the banks of the Parana. —on the geology of St. Fe. —on the age of Pampean formation. —on the Mastodon Andium. —on the geology of the Rio Negro. —on the character of the Patagonian fossils. —on fossils from Concepcion. — —from Coquimbo. — —from Payta. —on fossil tertiary shells of Chile. —on cretaceous fossils of Tierra del Fuego. — —from the Cordillera of Chile.
Earth, marine origin of.
Earthenware, fossil.