Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge / By the Rev. William Buckland.

  • Buckland, William, 1784-1856.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge / By the Rev. William Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lakes, their tendency to fill up, rather than burst, 213. Lancashire. Granite blocks on its plains, 199. Land-floods, did not introduce the mud to caves, 50. Land-shells in fissures, and not in caves, 151. in breccia of Gibraltar, 149. 154. Lark, at Kirkdale, 15—34. Lawford, elephants and other remains there in diluvium, 176. • , near Rugby. Hyaena discovered there, 26. animals in diluvium there, 27. Lead-mine, containing an entire rhinoceros, 62. in North Wales, containing elephants’ teeth, stags’ horns, &c. 177. Ledges in caves covered with diluvial sediment, 123. Lee’s Natural History of Lancashire, head of hip- popotamus engraved in it, 176. Leibnitz, his account of caves in the Hartz, 100. Leicestershire, its gravel, 195, 196. Lena, islands at its mouth full of bones, 46. 183. Lewisham, elephant’s remains, 174. Leyden, bones of elephant washed up by bursting of a dyke, 190. Licorne, or fossil unicorn, bones used for medicine, 104. Lickey Hill, near Birmingham, may have supplied quartzose pebbles, 249. Limestone, cavernous, round Muggendorf, 124. Lincoln, character of diluvium, 193. Lincolnshire coast, formed of diluvium, 192. , the Wash, shows alluvium on di- luvium, 190. Linnaeus, why he overlooked the evidences of a deluge, 225. Litchfield, gravel, its character, 195. pebbles in new red sandstone, 241. List of animals found at Kirkdale, 15. L'andebie, in Caermarthen. Cave with human bones, 166. Llanrwst, gravel and diluvial scratches near it, 206. Loam, not produced by decomposition of the roof, 144. within the caves, resembles the diluvium without, 145. noticed by De Luc, Leibnitz, Esper, and Rosenmuller, 109. in caves at Kostritz, 167. in cave at Kirby Moorside, 53. in cave of Scharzfeld, fills undervaultings, 115. in cave of Zahnloch, 131. in cave of Gailenreuth, 136. in caves of Germany, 102. in fissures and caverns at Plymouth, 68. in osseous breccia of Gibraltar, 150. — red in Mediterranean breccia, ibid. diluvial at Gibraltar, 156. varies in quality with the adjacent hills, 191. Loders, elephants’ remains at, 174. Lombardy, torrents in the plain of, 188. London. Remains of elephant under the streets, 174. Long Compton. Pebbles of quartzose sandstone, 250. Lucan mentions hyaenas’ bones as used in enchant- ments, 23. Lucas, J. Esq. his femur of rhinoceros, 81. Lutterworth, its gravel, 196. Lyme Regis, elephant’s remains, 174. Lyme. Valleys intersect the coast, 239- Lyme, valley simply of diluvial origin, 241. M. Macclesfield. Granite blocks on the west of it, 199. Maidenhead, pebbles from Warwickshire on the hills round, 198. 252.