Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; Hon. Fellow of King’s College, London.

With 235 Illustrations.

CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN,
LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

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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]