Geology : chemical, physical, and stratigraphical / by Joseph Prestwich.

  • Joseph Prestwich
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1886-1888
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    [An asterisk (*) affixed to Aachenian system, 6, 258, 264. Abbeville, flint implements at, 480, 482. Abbotsbury, Oolites at, 209, 221. Abies excelsa, 458. Abury, stones of, 342. Abyssal fauna, 326. Acadia, Trias of, 13. Acadian epoch, 15, 41, 67. Acanthocladia anceps, 135. *Acanthoraspis intertexta, 292. Acanthoteuthis, 218. *Acer primaevum, 385. Aceratherium incisivum,404, 406, 407, 408. *Acervularia Goldfussi, 76. *Acheta Sedgwicki, 234. Acidaspis Brightii, 56; *mira, PI. 11, f. 3. Acrocidaris nobilis, 250. *Acroculia haliotis, 57. Acrodus, 164,170, 194 ; *no- bilis, 185. Acrogens, Mesozoic, 331. Acrosalenia hemicidaroides, 212; *spinosa,Pl. vm, f. 5. Actinocrinus, 101; *pulcher, 55, 56. Actinopora papyracea, 271. Actinozoa, Mesozoic, 331, 333; Palaeozoic, 149, 150. Acton, palaeolithic imple- ments at, 477. Addington, large Ostrea at, 346. Aden, Cretaceous near, 307. *Adiantum apalophyllum, 368. *iEglina binodosa, 47. /Egoceras, 183. Aerolites, 537-563; are not volcanic, 561 ; density of, 561; may be fragments of asteroids, 562 ; origin of, 56r. -Etobatis subarcuatus, 367. II. General Index. an entry indicates that it is illustrated by a woodcut or in the plates.] Africa, coal in South, 126; drift-beds of, 483 ; For- mations in South, 18; glacial deposits in North, 461 ; glaciation of South, 467; gold in, 73 ; Jurassics of South, 256 ; Permian beds in South, 143 ; stone implements in South, 483 ; Trias in South, 173. Age of fishes, 14; of man in North America, 12 ; of the Bovey plants, 381; of the fossil Arctic plants, 414; of the Pikermi beds, 409, 411; of the Sisvalik beds, 411. Agenais, Miocene of, 398. Agnostidae, 33. Agnostus, 71; pisiformis, 40; *princeps, 33, 36 ; rex, 40. Air-breathing molluscs, ear- liest, 128. Aix-en-Provence, Oligocene at, 385, 386, 435. Aix-la-Chapelle, Cretaceous beds of, 302. Alabama era and group, 12, 393 ; limestones, 12, 13. Alabaster in Purbeck beds, 233 ; in Trias, 159, 162. Alaria, 194; Arsinoe, 217; hamulus, 214; *trifida, 204. Albian series, 273; stage, 7, 276. Aldborough, White Crag of, 418. Aldershot, Bagshot Sands at, 362. Alecto Calypso, 271. *Alethopteris lonchitidis, 105, 106; Whitbiensis, 255- Algeria, Miocene of, 407 ; Archaean rocks in, 28. Alleghanies, coal of the, 127, 128. Allorisma, 103. Alluvial deposits, 12, 521; gold, 73. Alluvium, 6-10; of the Thames Valley, 521, 522, 523, 524. Alpine districts, glacial de- posits of the, 45 ; glaciers, extent and rate of the, 529- Alps, anthraciferous rocks in the, 125; Archaean rocks in the, 26 ; gneiss of the, 9; *gneissoze rocks of the, 27; Jurassic rocks of the, 254 ; Neocomian in the, 274. Alum, procured from coal- shales, 95. Alum-schists of Scandinavia, fossils of the, 40. Alum-shales of Yorkshire, 177- Alum Bay, 358, 369, 374; ^section of, 374; Ter- tiaries of, 358, 364, 365, 368. *Alveolina Boscii, 366; sa- bulosa, 365. Alveolites fibrosus, 58. Amaltheus, 183. Amathina, 397. Amber of the Forest bed, Cromer, 443. Amber-beds, 7, 389. *Amberleya nodosa, PI. ix, f. 8. Amblypygus Melitensis, 409. Ambonychia, 49. America, Archaean rocks of, 19; Archaean rocks of South, 28 ; bone-caves of, 510, 511; Cambrian rocks of North, 40, 41; Carbo- niferous rocks of North, 126, 128; Cretaceous of North, 309 ; list of Forma- tions in North, 12-15 ! fossil birds of North, 310 ; glacial deposits in Central,