The World Before the Deluge

The World Before the Deluge

Louis Figuier, french scientist and writer (1819-1894)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

-04- ORDER OF STRATIFICATION

-05- ERUPTIVE ROCKS

-06- THE BEGINNING

-07- PRIMARY EPOCH

-08- ESTIMATED AREA OF THE COAL-MEASURES OF THE WORLD

-09- PERMIAN PERIOD

-10- SECONDARY EPOCH

-11- TRIASSIC

-12- PERMIAN

-13- RHÆTIC, OR PENARTH SUB-PERIOD

-14- JURASSIC PERIOD

-15- FERNS. CYCADS. CONIFERS

-16- LOWER OOLITE ROCKS

-17- THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD

-18- TERTIARY PERIOD

-19- THE EOCENE PERIOD

-20- THE MIOCENE PERIOD

-21- PLIOCENE PERIOD

-22- QUATERNARY EPOCH

-23- EUROPEAN DELUGES

-24- GLACIAL PERIOD

-25- CREATION OF MAN AND THE ASIATIC DELUGE

-26- EPILOGUE