A Manual of Elementary Geology / or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments Papyras Classics

A Manual of Elementary Geology / or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments

by Sir Charles Lyell

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Contents

  1. Preface to the Fourth Edition
  2. Postscript
  3. Chapter I. On the Different Classes of Rocks
  4. Chapter II. Aqueous Rocks—Their Composition and Forms of Stratification
  5. Chapter III. Arrangement of Fossils in Strata—Freshwater and Marine
  6. Chapter IV. Consolidation of Strata and Petrifaction of Fossils
  7. Chapter V. Elevation of Strata Above the Sea—Horizontal and Inclined Stratification
  8. Chapter VI. Denudation
  9. Chapter VII. Alluvium
  10. Chapter VIII. Chronological Classification of Rocks
  11. Chapter IX. On the Different Ages of the Aqueous Rocks
  12. Chapter X. Classification of Tertiary Formations.—Post-Pliocene Group
  13. Chapter XI. Newer Pliocene Period.—Boulder Formation
  14. Chapter XII. Boulder Formation—continued
  15. Chapter XIII. Newer Pliocene Strata and Cavern Deposits
  16. Chapter XIV. Older Pliocene and Miocene Formations
  17. Chapter XV. Upper Eocene Formations
  18. Chapter XVI. Eocene Formations—continued
  19. Chapter XVII. Cretaceous Group
  20. Chapter XVIII. Wealden Group
  21. Chapter XIX. Denudation of the Chalk and Wealden
  22. Chapter XX. Oolite and Lias
  23. Chapter XXI. Oolite and Lias—continued
  24. Chapter XXII. Trias or New Red Sandstone Group
  25. Chapter XXIII. Permian or Magnesian Limestone Group
  26. Chapter XXIV. The Coal, or Carboniferous Group
  27. Chapter XXV. Carboniferous Group—continued
  28. Chapter XXVI. Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian Group
  29. Chapter XXVII. Silurian Group
  30. Chapter XXVIII. Volcanic Rocks
  31. Chapter XXIX. Volcanic Rocks—continued
  32. Chapter XXX. On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks
  33. Chapter XXXI. On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks—continued
  34. Chapter XXXII. On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks—continued
  35. Chapter XXXIII. Plutonic Rocks—Granite
  36. Chapter XXXIV. On the Different Ages of the Plutonic Rocks
  37. Chapter XXXV. Metamorphic Rocks
  38. Chapter XXXVI. Metamorphic Rocks—continued
  39. Chapter XXXVII. On the Different Ages of the Metamorphic Rocks
  40. Chapter XXXVIII. Mineral Veins

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