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

  • Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHE Shell-mounds of Denmark, 109 Shells, proportion of Northern and Southern, ill crag, 205 Arctic, in Scotch drift, 154 fossil, of Virginia, U. S., 275 fossil, of London clay, 291 —— fossil, of mountain limestone, 513—517 of liarton clay, 285 of Edeghem, 232 of faluns compared to those of crag, 212 of Faxoe, 314 of Gergovia formation, GS6 of Great Oolite, 402 of Mayence basin, 241 of Norwich crag, 196 of Sicily, 189, 193 ■ of subapennine beds, 207 of Upper and Middle Purbeck, 377, 378 preserving tteir colour, 515 proportion found in different strata, 188 recent, 28, 29, 30 valuable in classification, 186 Sheppey, fauna and Mora of, 290 Shetland, granite of, 701 hornblende schist of, 734 Sicily, volcanic dikes of, 191 corals of, 192 dikes in, 658 inland cliffs in, 74 newer Pliocene beds of, 191 terraces of denudation in, 75 Sicllaw Hills, trap of, 691 Siebengebirge, igneous rocks of, 672 Sigillaria, structure and size of, 471, 478 leevigala, Coal, 472 Siliceous limestone defined, 12 rocks defined, 11 Silurian plutonic rocks, 717 derivation of name, 548 fossils, 549—565 lower inetamorphic, in Scotch Highlands, 753 rocks, table of, 547 rocks, Upper, 548 ; Middle, 556 ; Lower, 558 rocks, whether of deep-water origin, 568 strata of Euiope, 565 strala of United States, table of, 566 volcanic rocks, 692 Siphonia pyriformis, Blackdown beds, 327 Siphonotreta unguiculala, Silurian, 565 Siwalik Hills, freshwater deposits of, 273 skaptar Jokul, flow ol lava from, 650 Skye, plutonic rocks of Lias in, 716 decomposed trap of, 604 sandstone in, 36 Skull of stone age, Denmark, 113 of iron age, Denmark, 113 Skulls, brachycephalous, 113 dolicbocephalous, 113 Slaty cleavage, 740 Slickensides, term defined, 761 Smilex oblusifolia, GJningen, 253 sagittijera, CEningen,253 Smith, Mr., of Jordanhill, on Madeira fossil plants, 642 Snags, fossil, 481 Snowdon, volcanic tuffs of, 692 Soissonnais sands, 302 Solenhofen, fossils in lithographic stone of, 393 Solfatara, decomposition of rocks in the, 733 Somma, sahlhand at, 605 cone and dikes of, 654 Sopwith, Mr. T-, models by, 57 Sorby, Mr., on ripple-marks in mica-schist, 747 on hydrothermal action, 698 on slate cleavage, 742 South Devon, Old Red of, 531 STR Souih Downs, transverse valley, 3C0 view of, 358 South Juggins, stigmuria and sigillaria at, 472 section of cliffs at, 482 Spaccoforno inland cliffs, 76 Spain, volcanos in, 6 Spalacotherium, Purbeck, 403 Spanish volcanos, age of, 665 Sputaugus radiatus, Chalk, 311 with Serpula attached, 23 Species, antiquity of living, 194 of Upper and Lower Cretaceous, 342 of plants common to Older Miocene and flora of Uiningen,258 variations of, 213 Specific gravity of basalt and trachyte, 594 Sprzia, Gulf of, calcareous rocks, 750 Spine rexochus minis, Silurian, 555 Spluerutites agariciformis, Chalk, 335 Sphenopteris gracilis, Wealden, 349 crenatu. Carboniferous, 466 Spicula of sponge, Atlantic tnud,318 Spii'ifer trigonalis, S. glaber, Mountain Limestone, 514 disjunctus, Devonian, 533 mucronatus, 537 Walcotti, Lower Lias, 415 undulatus, 458 Spirolina stcnostoma, Eocene, 301 Spirorbis curbonarius, 490 Spundylus spinas us, Chalk, 325 Sponge in flint (Chalk), 327 Spongilla, spicula of, in tripoli, 25 Springs, mineral. See Mineral springs Staffa, columnar basalt of, 610 Stalactite, origin of, 123 Starfish of Lower Ludlow, 552 Stauria astneceformis, Silurian, 511 Steno, on classification of rocks, 87 Stereognathus described, 406 Sternbergia, structure of, 474 Stigmaria in coal-measures, 465 Jicoides, Coal, 473 and Sigillaria, 473 Stirling Castle, rock of, altered by dike, 608 Stiper-stones group, 563 Stockwerk, assemblage of veins, 759 Stokes, Mr., on petrifaction, 43 Stone weapons at Geneva, 111 Stonesfield slate, composition and fossils, 402 Strata of IC\ son, 292 arrangement of, determined by fossils, 21,22 consolidation of, 34 contortions of, in Cyclopian Isles, 652 contorted, in drift, 155 curved and vertical, 47, 58 elevation of, above the sea, 44 fossiliferous, tabular view of, 102 horizontality of, 15, 45 Infraliassic, of Austrian Alps, 433 Lacustrine, of the Cantal,227 Lower Miocene, of England, 237 Lower Miocene, of France, 215 metamorphic origin of, 728 mineral composition of, 10 Miocene, of Laly, 244 Miocene, of Belgium, 234 Miocene, of Bordeaux, 230 Miocene, of France, 210 Miocene, of Switzerland, 216 Newer Pliocene, of England, 195 Older Pliocene, of England, 199 outcrop of, 56 . Post-pliocene, 107 prominence of harder, 362 Receut, 107