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CONTENTS.
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Structure of the Globe─continued. | |
Origin of stratified and unstratified Rocks | 45 |
Relative Periods of disturbed Stratification | 49 |
CHAP. IV. | |
SERIES OF STRATIFIED ROCKS. | |
Sections and Maps of Strata | 53 |
Table of British stratified Deposits | 54 |
Varieties of Stratification | 59 |
Divisional Structures of Rocks | 62 |
Geographical Relations of Joints | 65 |
Cleavage | 67 |
CHAP. V. | |
ORGANIC REMAINS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. | |
Fossil Plants | 69 |
Table of their Geological Distribution | 73 |
Fossil Zoophyta | 73 |
Table of certain Groups | 76 |
Fossil Mollusca | 77 |
Table of proportionate Number of Species at different Geological Periods | 80 |
Table of proportionate Number of Species in the different Orders or Classes of Mollusca in different Geological Periods | 81 |
Table of Genera containing many living Species of Gasteropoda | 82 |
Table of Genera containing many Fossil Species of Conchifera | 83 |
Table of Genera of Cephalopoda | 83 |
Table of Subgenera of Ammonites | 84 |
Articulated Animals | 84 |
Table of Crustacea | 85 |
Fossil Fishes | 86 |
Agassiz's. Classification of Fishes | 88 |
Table | 90 |
Fossil Reptiles | 91 |
Owen's System of Fossil Saurians | 92 |
Fossil Birds | 95 |
Fossil Mammalia | 95 |
Marsupial of Stonesfield | 97 |
Table of Mammalia | 99 |
General Considerations | 100 |
CHAP. VI. | |
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE STRATIFIED ROCKS IN THE CRUST OF THE EARTH. | |
Introductory Remarks | 107 |
Granitic Basis of the Crust of the Earth | 108 |