Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader / by Joseph Le Conte.

  • Joseph LeConte
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1898,
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    of tho Great Lakes, 584; History of tlio Mississippi Kiver, 585; Quaternary Period on the Western Hide of the Continent, bib \ Sea Submurine Ciiannels, 580; Glaciers, 587; Flooded Lakes, 589 ; River-Beds, 591; History of the Sierra Nevada, 593. The Quaternary in Europe, 598. 1. Epoeh of Elevation—Glacial Epoch, 594: Map of European Ice-Sheet, 594. 2. Epoch of Submergence—Champlain, 590. Southern Hemisphere, 596. Some General Results of Glacial Erosion. 1. Fiords, 597; 2. Glacial Lakes, 598; Dilftrent Kinds, 598. Life of the Quaternary Period, 599; Plants and Invertebrates, 599; Mammals, 599: 1. Bone-Caverns, 599; Origin of Cave Bone-Rubbish, COl; Origin of Bone-Caverns, 602; 2. Beaches and Terraces, 602; 3. Marshes and Bogs, 602; 4. Frozen Soils and Ice ClifiTs, 603; Quaternary Mammalian Fauna of England, 604; Mammalian Fauna in North America, 605; Bone-Caves, 605; Marshes and Bogs, 605; Genesis of the Proboscidians, G07 ; River- Gravels, 609; Quaternary in South America, 609; Australia, 612; Geographical Faunas of Quaternary Times, 612; Centers of Origin and Dispersal of Existing Spe- cies of Mammals, 612. Some General Observations on the Whole Quaternary, 612; Cause of the Climate, 612; Effect of Crust-Movements, 613; CroU's Theory, 614; Wallace's Views, 616; Time involved in the Quaternary Period, 617; Geological Climates and their Causes, 618; The Quaternary a Period of Revolution—a Transition between the Cenozoic and the Modern Eras, 619 ; Migration of Species, 620; Gen- eral Process of Evolution, 622; Application to Australia, 623; Africa, 624; Mada- gascar, 624: British Islands, 625; Coast Islands of California, 625; Drift in Rela- tion to Gold, 626; Age of the River-Gravels of California, 628. CHAPTER VI. PsYCHOzoic Era.—Age of Man.—Recent Epoch .... 629-646 Cliaracteristics, 629; Distinctness of this Era, 629; The Change still in Progress—■ Examples of Recently Extinct Species, 630. I. Antiquity of Man, 632. Primeval Man in Europe, 633; Supposed Tertiary Man—Evidence unreliable, 633; Quaternary Man—Mammoth Age, 634: (a) In River-Gravels, 635; (J) Bone.-Caves—Engis Skull, 635; Neanderthal Man, 635; Men of Spy, 636 ; Mentone Skeleton, 636 ; Reindeer Age or Later Palaeolithic, 637 ; Aurignac Cave, 637; P^rigord Caves, 638; Conclusions, 639. Neolithic Man; Refuse-Heaps; Shell-Mounds; Kitchen-Middens, 639; Transition to the Bronze Age—Lake-Dwellings, 639. Primeval Man in America, HQ; Supposed Pliocene Man, Calaveras Skull,640; Carson Footprints, 641; Quaternary Man in New Jersey —in Minnesota—in Ohio, 642 ; Quaternary Man in Otlier Countries, 643; Supposed Missing Link of Java, 643 ; Time since Man appeared, 645. II. Character of Primeval Man, 646.
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