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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    ANO Anoplt therium gracile, 298 AnthoUthes, Coal, 477 Anthophyllum lineatum, 276 Anthracite, conversion of coal into, 735 in Rhode Island, 735 Anticlinal line, 48, 67 Antiquity of living species, 194 of mail, 131 Antrim, basalt, age of, 240 rocks altered by dikes in, G07 Ants, winged, of (Entngen, 250 Antwerp Crag, fossils of, 205 Apatoon pedestris, a carboniferous reptile, 502 Apennines, Northern, metamorphic rocks of, 750 Aphanite, or cornean, 599 Apioct inites rotundus, Great Oolite, 399 Appalachian coal-field, 494, 498 Appalachians, conversion of coal into anthracite in, 735 Apteryx of New Zealand, 128 Aptychus latus, 393 Apuan Alps, marble of, 750 Apus (?) dubiits, Coal, 491 Aquapendente, Older Pliocene volcanic rocks of, 066 Aqueous deposits, superposition and chronology of, 97 erosion in Palma, 630 rocks defined, 2 rocks, mineral character of, 98 Aquitanien, term explained, 256 Aralo-Caspian formations, 209 Arans, volcanic formations, 693 Araucaria, cone of fossil, Inf. Oolite, 407 Arbroath paving-stone, 523 section from, to the Grampians, 48 Archceopleryx macrura, Solenhofen, 394 Arc/iegosaurus minor, Coal; A. medius, skin of, 503 Archiac, M. d’, on fossils of Chalk, 334 on nummulites, 304 on Nerila conoidea, 302 on pisolitic limestone, 311 on Touraitie faluns, 216 Arctic icebergs, size and weight of, 145 Ardeche, lava in, 611 Area of the Wealden, 349 Arenaceous rocks described, 11] Arenig, or Lower Llandeilo, formation, 563 A renigs, volcanic formations of, 693 Argile plastique, 303 Argillaceous rocks, 11 schist, 726 Argyle, Duke of, on Isle of Mull leaf-beds, 240 Argyleshire, trap vein in cliff, 604 Arkose, 727 Arran, age of granite in, 719 amygdaloid filled with brown spar near, 615 greenstone dike in, 604 section of, 722 Arthur’s Seat, altered strata of, 608 Arvicola, teeth of, 135 Asaphus caudalus, Silurian, 555 tyrannus, Silurian, 562 ; A. Buchii, 562 Ascension, lamination of volcanic rocks in, 744 Ashby.de-la-Zouch, fault in coal-field of,j69 Aspidura loricata, Muschelkalk, 437 Astarte bipartita (A. Omalii), 202 borealis, Clyde drift, 153 compressa, 164 Asterolepis, size of, 530 Asterophyllites foliosus. Coal, 471 Asterias limestone, fossils of, 230 Asti, formations at, 207 Aslrangia lineata, Virginia, 276 Astrcea basaltiformis, 512 Astropecten crispatus, Sheppey, 291 Atherfield beds, Isle of Wight, 340 Athyris navicula, Ludlow, 549 BAT Atlantic mud composed of organic bodies, 313 Islands, 274 flora of, compared to American, 269 Atlantis, Miocene, theory of, 265—272 Atmosphere of Coal period, 487 Atrium of a volcano, 629 Atruria zigzag (Nautilus zigzag), Sheppey and Porto Santo, 291, 668 Atrypa reticularis, Aymestry, 551 Augito, 590, 593, 599 Augitic porphyry, 599 Aulopora serpens, Devonian, 535 Aurillac, freshwater strata of, 228' Austen, Mr., on Upper Greensand, 329 Australia, auriferous gravel of, 7 cave-breccias of, 125 gold of, 670 mammalia of, 127 Auvergne, alluvium in, 80 age of trachytic rocks in, 650 extinct volcanos of, 677 granite veins, 764 indusial limestone in, 224 lacustrine strata of, 220—226 — Lower Miocene, freshwater formations of, 223 mineral veins of, 764 springs from spent volcanos, 756 succession of changes in, 218 Avicula cygnipes, Lias, 413 contorla, Trias, 439 incEquivalvis, Lias, 413 papyracea. Coal, 492 socialis, Muschelkalk, 437 Aviculopecten sublobalus, 515 Aymestry limestone, fossils of, 550 Azores, Upper Miocene, shells of, 669 T>ACILLARIA anceps. White Chalk, 323 Baculites anceps, Chloritic Marl, 323 Faujasii, White Chalk, 323 vulgaris (?) in tripoli, 25 Baffin’s Bay, drift of, described, 144 Bagshot beds, fossils of, 286 Baise, Bay of, tufaceous strata containing imple- ments, 654 subterranean igneous action in, 714 Bakewell, Mr., on cleavage in Swiss Alps, 739 Bala beds, thickness and fossils of, 560 Balcena emarginata, tympanic boue of, 201 Balgray, near Glasgow, stumps of trees in coal, 477 Balistidee, defensive spine of, 287 Bangor group, 573 Barcelona, marine tertiary strata of, 666 Barmouth sandstones, 573 Barranco, section through the, 631 de las Angustias, 631 Barrande, M. Joachim, on primordial zone, 569—574 on trilobites, 569, 575 Barrett, M. Louis, on bird in Blackdown beds, 330 Barton clay, shells of, 284 Basalt, 593, 599 columnar, in the Vicentin, 612 columnar, of Giant’s Causeway, 6 columnar, in the Eifel, 613 specific gravity of minerals in, 650 Basanite, 599 Basilosaurus, 308 Basset, term explained, 56 Basterot, M. de, on Bordeaux tertiary strata, 182 Bateman, Mr. J. F., on Blackpool shells, 159 Batrachian (?), eggs of, in Old Red, Scotland, 524 Bats, molars of insectivorous, Kyson, 292 Bay of Fundy, impressions in red mud of, 450 denudation of coal-field in, 485 Bayfield, on inland dills in Gulf of St. Lawrence. 78