The Student’s Elements of Geology

The Student’s Elements of Geology

Charles Lyell, british lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day (1797-1875)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS

-04- AQUEOUS ROCKS, THEIR COMPOSITION AND FORMS OF STRATIFICATION

-05- ARRANGEMENT OF FOSSILS IN STRATA

-06- CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA AND PETRIFACTION OF FOSSILS

-07- DENUDATION

-08- JOINT ACTION OF DENUDATION

-09- CHRONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS

-10- PERMIAN OR MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE GROUP

-11- THE COAL OR CARBONIFEROUS GROUP

-12- FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD

-13- DEVONIAN OR OLD RED SANDSTONE GROUP

-14- SILURIAN GROUP

-15- CAMBRIAN AND LAURENTIAN GROUPS

-16- VOLCANIC ROCKS

-17- ON THE AGES OF VOLCANIC ROCKS

-18- AGE OF VOLCANIC ROCKS CONTINUED

-19- PLUTONIC ROCKS

-20- ON THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE PLUTONIC ROCKS

-21- METAMORPHIC ROCKS

-22- METAMORPHIC ROCKS CONTINUED

-23- ON THE DIFFERENT AGES OF THE METAMORPHIC ROCKS

-24- MINERAL VEINS