The World Before the Deluge
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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.
TERTIARY PERIOD.
THE EOCENE PERIOD.
THE MIOCENE PERIOD.
PLIOCENE PERIOD.
THE MIOCENE PERIOD.
PLIOCENE 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.
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