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

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The text surveys fossil and rock records to explain how ancient changes of the Earth and its inhabitants can be interpreted from geological monuments. It outlines the historical development of geological thought, describes processes now in action—erosion, sedimentation, volcanism, and glaciation—and shows how their traces become preserved as strata, unconformities, and fossils. It treats the distribution and succession of organic remains, stratigraphic classification, and the nature of igneous and plutonic rocks, illustrated with field observations and regional examples. Appendices report recent palaeontological findings and their implications for the progressive development of life while offering practical methods for reading and correlating strata in the field.

G.

  • Gaillonella fossil in Tripoli, 25.
  • ferruginea in bog-iron ore, 26.
  • Galapagos Islands, animals of, 279.
  • Garnets in altered rock, 382.
  • Gases, subterranean rocks altered by, 476.
  • Gault, 218.
  • Gavarnie, flexures of strata, 59.
  • Geology defined, 1.
  • Gergovia, hill of, 430.
  • Giant's Causeway, columns at, 384.
  • Gibbes, R. W., cited, 207.
  • Glacial phenomena, northern, origin of, 132.
  • Glaciers, Alpine, 140.
  • Glaciers on Caernarvonshire mountains, 130.
  • Glasgow, marine strata near, 148.
  • Glen Roy, parallel roads of, 86.
  • Glen Tilt, granite of, 442.
  • Gneiss, altered by granite, 445.
  • in Bernese Alps, 484.
  • at Cape Wrath, 444.
  • near Christiania, 446.
  • described, 464.
  • Gold, age of, in Ireland, 498.
  • age of, in Ural Mountains, 499.
  • Goldfuss, Prof., on reptiles in coal-field, 336.
  • Göppert, Prof., on beds of coal, 316.
  • on petrifaction, 40.
  • Graham's Island, 389. 407.
  • Grampians, old red conglomerates in, 47.
  • Granite described, 7. 436. 438. 444.
  • passage of into trap, 441.
  • porphyritic, 439.
  • and limestone, junction of in Glen Tilt, 442.
  • syenitic, 440.
  • talcose, 440.
  • schorly, 440.
  • of Cornwall and Dartmoor, 474.
  • of Swiss Alps, 484.
  • rocks in connection with mineral veins, 500.
  • of Saxony, 459.
  • Granites, oldest, 458.
  • varieties of, 444.
  • veins in Cornwall, 445.
  • veins in Cape Wrath, 444.
  • veins in Table Mountain, 443.
  • vein in White Mountains, 450.
  • of Arran, age of, 459.
  • near Christiania, 457.
  • dikes in Mount Battock, 443.
  • Graphite, powder of, consolidated by pressure, 38.
  • Graptolites, 357.
  • Grateloup, M., on fossils in chalk, 223.
  • Grauwacke, term explained, 350.
  • Greenland, sinking of coast, 46.
  • Greensand, upper, 218.
  • fossils of, 212.
  • Greensburg, Pennsylvania, footprints of reptile in coal strata at, 337.
  • Greenstone or Dolerite, 372.
  • dike of, in Arran, 379.
  • Grès de Beauchamp, Paris Basin, 193.
  • Grignon, fossil shells near, 193.
  • Grit defined, 11.
  • Guadaloupe, human skeleton of, 115.
  • Guidoni on Carrara marble, 482.
  • Gutbier, Col. von, on Permian flora, 305. 307.
  • Gryphæa, fossil figure of, 22.
  • Gypseous marls, 186.
  • series, 191.
  • Gypsum defined, 13.

H.

  • Hall, Sir Jas., experiments on fused minerals, 406.
  • on curved strata, 48.
  • Capt. B., cited, 378. 401. 443.
  • Hamilton, Sir W., on eruption of Vesuvius, 405.
  • Harris, Major, on salt lake in Ethiopia, 296.
  • Hartz, Bunter sandstein of, 288.
  • Hastings, Lady, fossils collected by, 198.
  • Hastings sand, 229.
  • bed, shells of, 229.
  • Hautes Alpes, rocks of, 455.
  • Haüy cited, 369.
  • Hawkshaw, Mr., on fossil trees in coal, 317.
  • Hayes, T. L., on icebergs, 123.
  • Hébert, M., cited on Upper Eocene beds, 176.
  • Hebrides, dikes of trap in, 379.
  • Heidelberg, varieties of granite near, 444.
  • Henfrey, Mr. A., on food of Mastodon, 138.
  • Henslow, Prof., on fossil cetacea in Suffolk, 166.
  • on fossil forests, 233.
  • on dike and altered rock near Plas Newydd, 381.
  • Henry, Mr., cited, 476.
  • Herschel, Sir J., on slaty cleavage, 472.
  • Hertfordshire pudding-stone, 35.
  • Hibbert, Dr., on volcanic rocks, 428.
  • on coal field at Burdiehouse, 325.
  • cited, 419.
  • High Teesdale, garnets in altered rock at, 382.
  • Hildburghausen, footprints of reptile at, 289. 290.
  • Hippurite limestone, 221.
  • Hitchcock, Prof., on footprints, 297.
  • Hoffmann, Mr., on Lipari Islands, cited, 476.
  • on cave near Palermo, 74.
  • on Carrara marble, 482.
  • Hooghly river, analysis of water, 41.
  • Hopkins, Mr., on fractures in Weald, 251.
  • Horizontality of strata, 15.
  • of roads of Lochaber, 88.
  • Hornblende, 369.
  • schist, 464. 478.
  • Horner, Mr., on geology of Eifel, 415.
  • on Megalichthys, 336.
  • Hubbard, Prof., on granite vein in White Mountains, 450.
  • Hugi, M., on Swiss Alps, 484.
  • Humboldt, cited, 314.
  • on uniform character of rocks, 486.
  • Hungary, trachyte of, 442.
  • volcanic rocks of, 421.
  • Hunt, Mr., experiments on clay-ironstone, 326.
  • Hutton, opinions of, 60.
  • Huttonian theory, 92.
  • Hypogene, term defined, 9.
  • rocks, mineral character of, 485.
  • or metamorphic limestone, 465.

I.

  • Ibbetson, Capt., on chalk Isle of Wight, 215.
  • Ice, rocks drifted by, 122.
  • Icebergs, stranding of, 129. 137.
  • Iceland, icebergs drifted to, 137.
  • Ichthyolites of Old Red Sandstone, 349.
  • Ichthyosaurus communis, figure of, 277.
  • Igneous rocks, 6.
  • of Siebengebirge and Westerwald, 417.
  • rocks of Val di Noto, 389.
  • Iguanodon Mantelli, 227. 229.
  • India, cretaceous system in, 225.
  • freshwater deposits of, 173.
  • oolitic formation in, 285.
  • Indusial limestone, Auvergne, 184.
  • Infusoria in tripoli, 24.
  • Inland sea-cliffs in South of England, 71.
  • Insects in Lias, 281.
  • Ireland, drift in, 131.
  • Ischia, volcanic cones in, 403.
  • Post-Pliocene strata of, 113.
  • Isle of Wight, freshwater beds of, 197.
  • Isomorphism, theory of, 370.

J.

  • Jackson, Dr. C. T., analysis of fossil bones, 138.
  • James, Capt., on fossils in drift South Ireland, 131.
  • Java, stream of sulphureous water, 191.
  • Jobert, M., on hill of Gergovia, 430.
  • Joints, 469.
  • Jorullo, lava stream of, 450.
  • Jura, alpine blocks on, 142.
  • limestone, 261.
  • structure of, 55.

K.

  • Kangaroo, fossil and recent, jaws figured, 156.
  • Kaup, Prof., on footprints of Cheirotherium, 290.
  • Kaye, Mr., on fossils of Southern India, 225.
  • Keeling Island, fragment of greenstone in, 217.
  • Keilhau, Prof., cited, 457. 474.
  • on dike of greenstone, 380.
  • on gneiss near Christiania, 446.
  • on granite, 447.
  • Kelloway rock, 34.
  • Kentish chalk, sand-galls in, 82.
  • Keuper, the, 287.
  • Killas in granite of Cornwall, 474.
  • Kimmeridge clay, 260. and Postscript, xxi.
  • King, Dr., on footprints of reptile, 337.
  • King, Mr., on Permian group and fossils, 301. 302.
  • Kirkdale, cave at, 154.
  • Kotzebue cited, 217.
  • Kyson, in Suffolk, strata of, 202.

L.

  • Labyrinthodon, 292. 288. 289.
  • Lacustrine strata of Auvergne, 181.
  • Lagoons at mouth of rivers, 33.
  • of Bermuda Islands, 216.
  • Lake craters of Eifel, 419.
  • crater of Laach, 420.
  • Lamarck on bivalve mollusca, 29.
  • Land, rising and sinking, 45.
  • Laterite, 376.
  • Lava, 373.
  • current, Auvergne, 425.
  • relation to trap, 387.
  • stream of Jorullo, 450.
  • of Stromboli, 450.
  • Lea, Mr., footprints of reptile discovered by, 340.
  • Lead, veins of, in Permian rocks, 499.
  • Lehman on classification of rocks, 90.
  • Leibnitz, theory of, 94.
  • Lepidodendra, 312.
  • Lewes, coomb near, 250.
  • Lias, 273.
  • period, Volcanic rocks, 431.
  • at Lyme Regis, 281.
  • plutonic rocks of, 455.
  • and oolite, origin of, 282.
  • fossil plants of, 282.
  • Liebig, Prof., on conversion of coal into lignite, 333.
  • on preservation of fossil bones in caverns, 155.
  • Lima, recent strata of, 115.
  • Limagne d'Auvergne, freshwater formations of, 187.
  • Lime, scarcity of, in metamorphic rocks, 487.
  • Limestone, brecciated, 302.
  • crystalline, 302.
  • compact, 303.
  • fossiliferous, 303.
  • hippurite, 221.
  • indusial, Auvergne, 184.
  • of Jura, 261.
  • magnesian, 301.
  • mountain fossils of, 340.
  • primary or metamorphic, 465.
  • in Germany, of Devonian system, 348.
  • Lindley, Dr., cited, 223.
  • on leaves in lignite, 416.
  • Link, M., on footprints, 291.
  • Lipari Islands, rocks altered by gases in, 476.
  • Lisbon, marine tertiary strata near, 171.
  • Lithodomi in beaches of N. America, 78.
  • in inland cliffs, 73.
  • Llandeilo flags, 357.
  • Loam defined, 13.
  • Lochaber, parallel roads of, 86.
  • Lodes. See Mineral Veins, 490.
  • Loess of valley of Rhine, 117.
  • fossil land shells of, figured, 120.
  • Logan, Mr., on coal measures of South Wales, 310.
  • on fossil forest in Nova Scotia, 322.
  • on reptilian foot-prints in lowest Silurian in Canada, Postscript, viii.
  • London clay, 200.
  • Lonsdale, Mr., cited, 152.; on corals, 173.
  • on corals of Normandy, 170.
  • on corals in Wenlock formation, 355.
  • on fossils in white chalk, 26.
  • on old red sandstone of S. Devon, 345.
  • on Stonesfield slate, 266.
  • Louvain, Eocene strata near, 177.
  • Lovén on shells of Norway, 114.
  • Ludlow formation, 351.
  • Lund, cited, 158.
  • Lycett, Mr., on shells of oolite, 266.
  • Lyme Regis, lias at, 281.
  • Lym-Fiord invaded by the sea, 33.
  • kelp in, 217.
  • Lyons, coal mine near, 319.

M.

  • Macacus, in Eocene formation, 203.
  • Maclaren, Mr., on erratic blocks in Pentlands, 125.
  • Maclure, Dr., on volcanos in Catalonia, 409.
  • MacCulloch, Dr., cited, 442.
  • on altered rock in Fife, 383.
  • on basaltic columns in Skye, 385.
  • on denudation, 67.
  • on granite of Aberdeenshire, 441.
  • on igneous rocks of Scotland, 390.
  • on Isle of Skye, 36. 456.
  • on hornblende schist, 478.
  • on overlying rocks, 8.
  • on parallel roads, 87.
  • on pebbles of granite, 460.
  • on trap vein in Argyleshire, 379.
  • Madeira, view of dike in inland valley in, 378.
  • Maestricht beds, 209.
  • Magnesian limestone, concretionary structure of, 37.
  • defined, 13.
  • groups, 301.
  • Maidstone, fossils in white chalk of, 214.
  • Mammalia, extinct, above drift in United States, 138.
  • extinct, of basin of Mississippi, 116.
  • fossil teeth of, figured, 160.
  • Mammat's "Geological Facts" cited, 69.
  • Mammifer in trias near Stuttgart, Postscript, xiii.
  • Mansfield in Thuringia, Permian formation at, 306.
  • Mantell, Dr., cited, 217. 229. 231. 251.
  • on belemnite, 263.
  • on chalk flints, 253.
  • on Brighton elephant bed, 257.
  • on freshwater beds of Isle of Wight, 198.
  • on iguanodon, 227.
  • on Wealden group, 226.
  • on reptile in Old Red, Postscript, x.
  • Marble defined, 12.
  • Marl defined, 13.
  • in Lake Superior, 36.
  • red and green in England, 289.
  • Marl-slate defined, 13.
  • Martin, Mr., cited, 250.
  • on cross fractures in chalk, 245.
  • Martins, Mr. C., on glaciers of Spitzbergen, 136.
  • Map to illustrate denudation of Weald, 242.
  • Map of Eocene beds of central France, 179.
  • Massachusetts, plumbago in, 478.
  • Mastodon angustidens, jaw, figure of, 159.
  • Mastodon giganteus, in United States, 137.
  • Mayence tertiary strata, 177.
  • Mediterranean and Red Sea, distinct species in, 100.
  • deposits forming in, 99.
  • Megalichthys in Cannel coal of Fifeshire, 336.
  • Megatherium in South America, 158.
  • Menai Straits, marine shells in drift, 130.
  • Mendips, denudation in, 68.
  • Metalliferous veins. See Mineral Veins.
  • Metals, supposed relative ages of, 497.
  • Metamorphic rocks, 463.
  • defined, 8.
  • why less calcareous than fossiliferous, 487.
  • order of succession, 485.
  • glossary of, 466.
  • Metamorphic strata, origin of, 467.
  • Metamorphic structure, origin of, 477.
  • Meteorites in drift, 145.
  • Mexico, lamination of volcanic rocks in, 480.
  • Meyer, M. H. von, cited, 147.
  • on fossil mammalia of Rhine, 178.
  • on reptile in coal, 336. 337.
  • on sandstone of Vosges, 288.
  • on Wealden of Hanover and Westphalia, 237.
  • Mica schist, 465.
  • Micaceous sandstone, origin of, 14.
  • Microlestes antiquus, triassic mammifer, Postscr., xiv.
  • Miller, Mr. H., on origin of rock salt, 295.
  • on old red sandstone, 343.
  • on fossil trees of coal near Edinburgh, 321.
  • Minchinhampton, fossil shells at, 266.
  • Mineral character of aqueous rocks, 97.
  • composition, test of age of volcanic rocks, 399.
  • springs, connected with mineral veins, 496.
  • veins and faults, 488. 490.
  • of different ages, 490. 498. 499.
  • veins, pebbles in, 492.
  • subsequently enlarged and re-opened, 492.
  • veins, various forms of, 489.
  • veins near granite, 496.
  • Mineralization of organic remains, 38.
  • Miocene formations, 168.
  • in United States, 171.
  • period, volcanic rocks of, 415.
  • term defined, 111.
  • Mississippi, fluviatile strata and delta of, 115. 116.
  • Mitchell, Sir T., on Australian caves, 156.
  • Mitscherlich, Prof., on augite and hornblende, 369.
  • on isomorphism, 370.
  • on mineral composition of Somma, 404.
  • Modon, lithodomi in cliff at, 73.
  • Molasse of Switzerland, 171.
  • Mons, flexures of coal at, 53.
  • Mont Blanc, granite of, 453.
  • Mont Dor, Auvergne, 422.
  • Monte Calvo, section of, 18.
  • Montlosier, M., on Auvergne volcanos, 427.
  • Moraine, term explained, 123.
  • Moraines of glaciers, 141.
  • Morea, inland sea-cliffs of, 73.
  • trap of, 431.
  • Morris, Mr., cited, 177.
  • on fossils at Brentford, 147.
  • Morton, Dr., on cretaceous rocks, 224.
  • Morven, basaltic columns in, 385.
  • Mosasaurus in St. Peter's Mount, 210.
  • Mountain limestone, fossils of, 340.
  • Munster, Count, on fossils of Solenhofen, 260.
  • Murchison, Sir R., cited, 248. 324.
  • on new red sandstone, 290.
  • on age of Alps, 206.
  • on age of gold in Russia, 499.
  • on erratic blocks of Alps, 144.
  • on granite, 456. 459.
  • on primary strata in Russia, 124.
  • on joints and cleavage, 469. 471.
  • on old red sandstone of S. Devon, 345. 348.
  • on pentamerus, 353.
  • on Permian flora, 305.
  • on Silurian strata of Shropshire, 434.
  • on Swiss Alps, 484.
  • on term Permian, 301.
  • on term Silurian, 350.
  • on tilestones, 351.
  • Muschelkalk, 287.

N.

  • Naples, post-pliocene formations near, 403.
  • recent strata near, 112.
  • Navarino, lithodomi found in cliff at, 73.
  • Necker, M. L. A., cited, 445.
  • on composition of cone of Somma, 404.
  • on granite in Arran, 460.
  • on granitic rocks, 447.
  • on Swiss Alps, 484.
  • terms granite underlying, 8.
  • Nelson, Lieut., drawing of Bermuda, 79.
  • on Bermuda Island, 216.
  • Neptunian theory, 91.
  • Newcastle coal field, great faults in, 64.
  • Newcastle, fossil tree near, 312. 318.
  • New Jersey, Mastodon giganteus in, 137.
  • New red sandstone, distinction from old, 286.
  • its subdivisions, 287.
  • of United States, 297.
  • trap of, 432.
  • New Zealand, absence of quadrupeds, 158.
  • Niagara, recent shells in valley of, 138.
  • Noeggerath, M., cited, 415.
  • Nomenclature, changes of, 93.
  • Norfolk, buried forest, 127. 130. 147.
  • drift, 126.
  • Normandy chalk, cliffs, and needles, 241.
  • Northwich, beds of salt at, 294.
  • Norwich crag, fluvio-marine, 148.
  • sand-pipes near, 82.
  • Nova Scotia, coal seams of Cape Breton, 315.
  • fossil forest of coal in, 321.
  • Nummulites, figures of, 200. 205.
  • Nummulitic formation, 205.
  • Nyst, M., cited, 176.

O.

  • Oeynhausen, M. von, on Cornish granite veins, 445.
  • Olot, extinct volcanos near, 408.
  • Old red sandstone, 342.
  • in Forfarshire, 478.
  • trap of, 434.
  • Oolite, 257.
  • and lias, origin of, 282.
  • inferior, fossils of, 272.
  • in France, 259.
  • plutonic rocks of, 455.
  • term defined, 12.
  • volcanic rocks of, 431.
  • Oolitic group in France, 283.
  • Orbigny, M. d', cited, 222.
  • on fossils of nummulitic limestone, 206.
  • on subdivisions of cretaceous series, 209.
  • Organic remains, criterion of age of formation, 98.
  • test of age of volcanic rocks, 399.
  • Ormerod, Mr., on trias of Cheshire, 295.
  • Overlying, term applied to volcanic rocks, 8.
  • Owen, Prof., cited, 155. 166. 229. 267. 268. 270. 291.
  • on amphitherium, 269.
  • on birds in New Zealand, 158.
  • on caves in England, 154.
  • on footprints, 298.
  • on fossils in Australia, 156.
  • on fossil monkey, 202.
  • on fossil quadrupeds, 157.
  • on ichthyosaurus, 276.
  • on reptile in coal, 337.
  • on serpent of Bracklesham, 199.
  • on snake at Sheppey, 201.
  • on thecodont saurians, 306.
  • on zeuglodon, 207. 208.
  • on reptile in Silurian rocks, Postscript, viii.
  • Oxford clay, 262.
  • Oyster beds, 204.