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The World Before the Deluge
By Louis Figuier
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- THE World before the Deluge.
- CONTENTS.
- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PREFACE.
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
- Fossils.
- Chemical and Nebular Hypotheses of the Globe.
- Modifications of the Surface of the Globe.
- ORDER OF STRATIFICATION.
- ORDER OF STRATIFICATION.
- ERUPTIVE ROCKS.
- Plutonic Eruptions.
- Volcanic Rocks.
- Trachytic Formations.
- Basaltic Formations.
- Volcanic or Lava Formations.
- Trachytic Formations.
- Basaltic Formations.
- Volcanic or Lava Formations.
- Metamorphic Rocks.
- General Metamorphism.
- General Metamorphism.
- THE BEGINNING.
- PRIMARY EPOCH.
- Cambrian Period.
- The Silurian Period.
- Lower Silurian.
- Upper Silurian Period.
- Lower Silurian.
- Upper Silurian Period.
- OLD RED SANDSTONE AND DEVONIAN PERIOD.
- CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD.
- Carboniferous Limestone. (Sub-period.)
- Coal Measures. (Sub-period.)
- Formation of Beds of Coal.
- Carboniferous Limestone. (Sub-period.)
- Coal Measures. (Sub-period.)
- Formation of Beds of Coal.
- PERMIAN PERIOD.
- SECONDARY EPOCH.
- The Triassic, or New Red Period.
- New Red Sandstone.
- Keuper Sub-period.
- New Red Sandstone.
- Keuper Sub-period.
- RHÆTIC, OR PENARTH SUB-PERIOD.
- JURASSIC PERIOD.
- The Lias
- Oolitic Sub-period.
- Lower Oolite Fauna.
- Lower Oolite Rocks.
- Middle Oolite.
- Upper Oolite.
- The Lias
- Oolitic Sub-period.
- Lower Oolite Fauna.
- Lower Oolite Rocks.
- Middle Oolite.
- Upper Oolite.
- THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD.
- The Lower Cretaceous Period.
- Upper Cretaceous Period.
- The Lower Cretaceous Period.
- Upper Cretaceous Period.
- The Triassic, or New Red Period.
- TERTIARY PERIOD.
- THE EOCENE PERIOD.
- THE MIOCENE PERIOD.
- PLIOCENE PERIOD.
- THE MIOCENE PERIOD.
- PLIOCENE PERIOD.
- THE EOCENE PERIOD.
- QUATERNARY EPOCH.
- Post-Pliocene Period.
- EUROPEAN DELUGES.
- GLACIAL PERIOD.
- CREATION OF MAN AND THE ASIATIC DELUGE.
- EPILOGUE.
- TABLE OF BRITISH SEDIMENTARY AND FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA.
- EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS TABLE.
- INDEX.
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
- Textual remarks:
- Changes made to original text:
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