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

  • Charles Lyell
Date:
1865
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    H ** O CRI Cristcllaria rotulata, Chalk, 26 Croatia, Lower Miocene of, 243 Croizet, M., on Auvergne fossil mammalia, 227 Cromer, Norfolk drift at, 160 Crop out, term explained, 55 Crossopteriglda;, or fringe-finned fish, 629 Crust of earth defined, 2 Crustaceans of Old Red Sandstone, 523 Cryptodon angulatum, Hornsea, 291 Crystalline rocks, cleavage of, 746 limestone, 457 rocks, foliation of, 744 or metumorphic limestone, 726, 727 erroneously termed primitive, 9 schists defined, 7 Cumbrecito, Pass of, 633 Cuming, Mr., collection of, 189 Cunningham, Mr. J., on rain-marks, 442 Cup-and-star corals, 512 Curral, the, in Madeira, 644 Curved strata, 48, 49 Cutch, Runn of, 447 Cuvier, M., on tertiary series, 181 on Amphitherium, 397 on Eocene formation, 295 on fossils of Montmartre, 296 Cyathea glauca, Carboniferous, 467 Cyathina Bowerbankii, Gault, 512 Cyathocrinites p/anus, 513 Cyathocrinus caryocrinoides, 513 Cyathophyllum ccespitosum, 534 Cycadeoidea (Mantellia) megalophylla, 387 Cycadites comptus, Gristhorpe, 408 Cyclas obovata, 28 Cycloidal scaled fish, 529] Cyclopian Islands, beds of clay and tuff at, G51 Cyclostoma elegans, Pleistocene, 30 Cyclopteiis Hibernica, 521 Cylindrites acutus, Great Oolite, 402 Cypriza Europcea, Red Crag, 200 Cypress swamps of Mississippi, 488 Cypris fasciculata, 378 granulata, 378 gibbosa, Purbeck, 378 spinigera, Weald, 346 punctata, Lower Purbeck, 387 tubercutata, Purbeck, 378 Icguminella, Purbeck, 378 Valdensis (C./aba.), 346 ? infiata, Coal, 490 striato-punctata, 378 Purbeckensis, Lower Purbeck, 387 Cyprides in Weald, 316 Cypridina serralo-striata, 534 Cypridinen-schiefer, term explained, 533 Cyrcna fluminalis, 28 -—- consobrina, 28 cunetformis, 293 semistriala, Hempstead beds, 237 Cystidese in Silurian rocks, 660 Cy there (?) inflata, Coal, 490 Cytherella, Chalk, 26 Cytherina, Chalk, 26 T5ACHSTEIN beds, composition of, 433 ^ Dadoxylon, coal-plant, 474 Dana, Mr., on Sandwich Islands volcanos, 616, 618, 657 ■■■- on Kamschatka soundings, 319 on slope of lavas, 678 on zoantharia and bryozoa, 212 on minerals of metamorphic rock, 735 on coral-reef of Sandwich Islands, 317 Bapedius monilifer, Lias, 418 Daphnogenc cinnarnomifolia, 262 DIA Darbishlre, Mr. R. D.,on Moel Tryfaen shells, I58 Dartmoor, intrusive granite of, 730 carboniferous granite of, 716 Darwin, Mr., on plutonic rocks of Andes, 713 on corals of Pacific, 316 on mammalia of South America, 129 on Welsh glacial drift, 159 on gravel-beds of South America, 633 on sinking of coral-reefs, 46 on gradual rise of part of South America, 46 on pre-glacial migration of plants, 270 on transportation of pebbles, 321 on dikes of St. Helena, 657 on marine saurian, 422 on South American ostrich, 453 on foliation and cleavage, 744, 746 Date of rocks ascertained by organic remains, 179 Dates of discovery of fossil vertebrata, 584 Daubeny, Dr., on basalt, 593 on decomposition of trachytic rocks, 733 on age of Auvergne volcanos, 684 Daubree, on alkaline waters of Plombifires, 731 Davidson, Mr., on fossils of Lias, 415 Dawes, Mr. J. S., on calamites, 470 Dawkins, Mr. W. Boyd, on Trias quadrupeds, 386 on Triassic mammifer, 440 Dawson, Dr., on Eozoon Canadense, 579 on Papa vetusta, 508 on position of calamite, 469 on Devonian flora, 543 Dax, inland cliff at, 72 Dean, forest of, coal in, 501 Deane, Dr., on footprints in Trias, 452 Debey, Dr., on flora of Aix-la-Chapelle, 330 Dechen, M. von, on Cornish granite veins, 704 on reptiles in Saarbiiick coal-field, 502 on remains in brown-coal, 672 Delesse, M. on minerals of hjpogene limestone, 735 on augite and basalt, 593 on globular structure of volcanic rock, 612 on felspathic rock of Madeira, 646 Deltas of Switzerland, 120 Deluge, 4 Dendrerpeton found in Coal, 507 Dennis, Rev. J. P., on Stereognathus, 406 Denudation explained, 66 terraces of, in Sicily, 75 of the Weald valley, 355—368, 370 of chalk, 362 of Palma fluviatile or marine ? 632 Deposition, proofs of gradual, 229 Derbyshire, veins in mountain limestone, 762 Deshayes, M„ on recent and,lossil shells, 187 on pisolitic limestone, 311 on shells of Etna, 189 on Hungarian shells, 676 on Soissonnais shells, 303 Desmarest, on trappean rocks, 88 Desnoyers, M., on Eocene fossil footprints, 298 on faluns of the Loire, 182 Desor, M., on shells of the Sahara, 175 on Celtic coins, 111 Devonian period, vegetation of, 542 Brachiopoda, 538 fossils of the Eifel, 672 fossils of, 533—539 series of North Devon, 532 of Russia, 537 of United States, 539 series, table of, 532 system, term explained, 531 Devonshire, cleavage of slate rocks in, 741 Diablerets, shells from the, 304 Diagonal, or cross-stratilication, 16 Diagram of plutouic and sedimentary formations, 712