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Elements of Geology
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Elements of Geology
The Student's Series
Written by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., F.R.S., (1871)
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Contents
Elements of Geology
The Student’s Series
Chapter I:
ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS.
Chapter II:
AQUEOUS ROCKS—THEIR COMPOSITION AND FORMS OF STRATIFICATION.
Chapter III:
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ARRANGEMENT OF FOSSILS IN STRATA—FRESH-WATER AND MARINE.
Chapter IV:
CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA AND PETRIFACTION OF FOSSILS.
Chapter V:
ELEVATION OF STRATA ABOVE THE SEA.—HORIZ. AND INCLINED STRATIFICATION.
Chapter VI:
DENUDATION.
Chapter VII:
JOINT ACTION OF DENUDATION, UPHEAVAL, AND SUBSIDENCE....
Chapter VIII:
CHRONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS.
Chapter IX:
CLASSIFICATION OF TERTIARY FORMATIONS.
Chapter X:
RECENT AND POST-PLIOCENE PERIODS.
Chapter XI:
POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued.—GLACIAL CONDITIONS.
Chapter XII:
POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued.—GLACIAL CONDITIONS, concluded.
Chapter XIII:
PLIOCENE PERIOD.
Chapter XIV:
MIOCENE PERIOD.—UPPER MIOCENE.
Chapter XV:
LOWER MIOCENE.
Chapter XVI:
EOCENE FORMATIONS.
Chapter XVII:
UPPER CRETACEOUS GROUP.
Chapter XVIII:
LOWER CRETACEOUS OR NEOCOMIAN FORMATION.
Chapter XIX:
JURASSIC GROUP.—PURBECK BEDS AND OOLITE.
Chapter XX:
JURASSIC GROUP, CONTINUED.—LIAS.
Chapter XXI:
TRIAS, OR NEW RED SANDSTONE GROUP.
Chapter XXII:
PERMIAN OR MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE GROUP.
Chapter XXIII:
THE COAL OR CARBONIFEROUS GROUP.
Chapter XXIV:
FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD.
Chapter XXV:
DEVONIAN OR OLD RED SANDSTONE GROUP.
Chapter XXVI:
SILURIAN GROUP.
Chapter XXVII:
CAMBRIAN AND LAURENTIAN GROUPS.
Chapter XXVIII:
VOLCANIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXIX:
ON THE AGES OF VOLCANIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXX:
AGE OF VOLCANIC ROCKS—CONTINUED.
Chapter XXXI:
PLUTONIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXXII:
ON THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE PLUTONIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXXIII:
METAMORPHIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXXIV:
METAMORPHIC ROCKS—continued.
Chapter XXXV:
ON THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS.
Chapter XXXVI:
MINERAL VEINS.
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