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The Romance of Modern Geology / Describing in simple but exact language the making of the earth with some account of prehistoric animal life

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A popular survey of geological science explaining how the planet's shape and surface have been moulded by weathering, rivers, seas, ice, earthquakes, volcanism, and rock-forming processes. It follows earth history from early formation through successive geological periods, uses fossil evidence to describe prehistoric animal life in reptilian and mammalian eras, and explains how coal beds and chalk deposits formed. The text also examines the causes and effects of earthquakes and volcanoes, considers the Ice Age and its legacies, and concludes with the emergence of humans within the geological record.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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MEGALOSAURUS Frontispiece
MAP SHOWING DISTRICTS OF WORLD-SHAKING EARTHQUAKES 15
ONE OF THE COLOSSAL NATURAL BRIDGES OF UTAH 40
THE GARDEN OF THE GODS, COLORADO 44
A CURIOUS ROCK GREATLY REVERED BY THE NATIVES 46
THE GRAND CAÑON OF ARIZONA 52
CLEOPATRA TERRACE, YELLOWSTONE PARK, U.S.A. 56
A PETRIFIED TREE 58
THE CRATER OF AN EXTINCT VOLCANO 104
THE PINNACLED CASTLE-LIKE PEAKS OF THE RAMSHORN MOUNTAINS OF WYOMING 130
A GEYSER IN ACTION 140
A CURIOUS ERUPTION OF MOUNT ASAMA, JAPAN 154
A HOUSE DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE 158
THE RUINS OF THE MAGNIFICENT CITY HALL OF SAN FRANCISCO 160
THE TRACK OF AN EARTH WAVE 166
A GEYSER AT REST IN YELLOWSTONE PARK, U.S.A. 170
THE NEW SPINE OF MONT PELÉE 184
THE DEAD CITY OF ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE 186
A YORKSHIRE POT-HOLE: SHOWING THE EFFECTS WHICH CAN BE PRODUCED IN LIMESTONE BY UNDERGROUND WATER 196
PLESIOSAURS 238
DIPLODOCI CARNEGIEI 240
ARCHÆOPTERYX AND COMPSOGNATHUS 242
EVOLUTION OF THE HEAD, PROBOSCIS, NOSTRILS, AND TUSKS OF THE ELEPHANT 260
TWO ARSINOITHERIUMS AT BAY BEFORE A PACK OF HYÆNODONS 266
DIPROTODON 278
The Number of world-shaking earthquakes from 1899 to 1908 which have originated in districts marked A, B, C, &c., are shown by figures.
(See pp. 171 and 172.)