Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell.

  • Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ABB A BBEVILLE, Post-pliocene, flint tools of, 116 Aberdeenshire, granite of, 701 Abich, M., on trachytic rocks, 594 Abridged table of fossiliferous strata, 101 Acer rubrnm, CEnillgen, 25] trilobatum, CEningen, 250, 251 , leaf of, GSningen, 264 Acrodus nobilis, Lias, 419 Acrogens, term explained, 331 Acrolepis Sedgwickii, scale of, 460 Actteon acutus, Great Oolite, 402 Actinocyclas in Atlautic mud, 318 Actinolite-schist, 727 Adams, Dr., on Nile river-terraces, 118 JEchmodus Leachii, Lias, 418 iEgean Sea, mud of, 35 AEpiornis of Madagascar, 452 Africa, South, Devonian strata of, 542 Agassiz, M., on carboniferous reptiles, 502 on fish of Brown-coal, 671 on fish of Lias, 418, 419 on fish of Sheppey, 291 on footprints, 453 on glaciers, 141, 142 on Monte Bolca fish, 687 on Old Red fossil fish, 528 on Permian fish, 459 'on Placodus, 437 — on Pterygotus, 523 Agglomerate, 598, 599 Agnostus integer, A. Rex, 575 Air-breathers in Coal, 507 rarity of, 509 Aix-la-Chapelle, cretaceous flora of, 330 hot springs at, 733 Alabama, cretaceous shingle of, 337 river-section near, 307 Alabaster defined, 13 Alberti, on Keuper, 432 Alkali present in Silurian and Cambrian strata, 736 Alluvial deposits, Recent and Post-pliocene, 114 Alluvium, term explained, 79 formation of, 81 in Auvergne, 80 Alpine erratics, 142 glaciers, colossal size of ancient, 142 blocks on the Jura, 141 _ Alps, age of metamorphic rocks in, 751 Austrian, infra-liassic strata of, 433 curved strata of, 58 elevated fossiliferous rocks in, 4 nummulitic limestone of, 304 Swiss and Savoy, cleavage of, 739 ANO Alteration of metamorphic rocks, 734 ” Alternations of different rocks, 14 of marine and freshwater formations, 32, 390 Alum Bay, flora of, 288 Alum schists of Sweden and Norway, 576 Alumina in rocks, 11 Amblyrhynchus crislalus, living, 423 Amentacea; of Swiss Miocene flora, 262 Amer, volcanic formations near, 661 America, North. See United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia America, South, cleavage of clay-slate in, 745 • Cretaceous strata of, 337 gradual rise of parts of, 46 American forms in Swiss Miocene flora, 266 Amiens, Post-pliocene flint tools of, 116 Ammonites Bucklandi (bisulcatus), 417 bifrons (IValcotii), Lias, 416 Braikenridgii, Oolite, 410 Humphresianus, Inf. Oolite, 409 Jason (A. Elizabethce), 397 macrocephalus. Oolite, 411 viargarilatus (Stokesii), Middle Lias, 416 Nodotianus (striatulus), Lias, 416 planorbis. Lower Lias, 417 Rhotomagensis, 329 striatulus, Upper Lias, 416 Ampelite, or aluminous slate, 727 Amphibole, 592 Amphibolite, 593, 599, 727 Amphistegina Hauerina, 242 Amphitherium Broderipii, 404 Prevostii, Stonesfield slate, 404 Ampullaria glauca (recent), 30 Amsterdam, or St. Paul Island, 636 Amygdaloid, 595,599 Analysis of volcanic minerals, 602 Ananchytes ovata, White Chalk, 323 Ancillaria subulata, Eocene, 31 Ancyloccras gigas, 341 spinigerum, 329 Ancylus elegans, Pleistocene, 29 Andelys, chalk cliffs at, 352 Andernach, strata near, 672 volcanic sand and loes at, 672 Andes, plutonic rocks of, 713 volcanic eruptions of, 734 Andesite, 594 Andreasburg, vein of, 765 Angiosperms in the coal, 477 term explained, 331 Anodonta Cordierii, A. latimarginatus (recent), 28 Anoplotherium commune, Blnstead, J8-*