The Student's Elements of Geology
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Of what materials is the earth composed, and in what manner are these materials arranged? These are the first inquiries with which Geology is occupied, a science which derives its name from the Greek ge, the earth, and logos, a discourse. Previously to experience we might have imagined that investigations of this kind would relate exclusively to the mineral kingdom, and to the various rocks, soils, and metals, which occur upon the surface of the earth, or at various depths beneath it. But, in pursuing such researches, we soon find ourselves led on to consider the successive changes which have taken place in the former state of the earth’s surface and interior, and the causes which have given rise to these changes; and, what is still more singular and unexpected, we soon become engaged in researches into the history of the animate creation, or of the various tribes of animals and plants which have, at different periods of the past, inhabited the globe. -an excerpt
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- The Student’s Elements of Geology
- AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY,” “THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN,” ETC.
- WITH MORE THAN 600 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS 1878
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS.
- CHAPTER II. AQUEOUS ROCKS.—THEIR COMPOSITION AND FORMS OF STRATIFICATION.
- CHAPTER III. ARRANGEMENT OF FOSSILS IN STRATA.—FRESH-WATER AND MARINE FOSSILS.
- CHAPTER IV. CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA AND PETRIFACTION OF FOSSILS.
- CHAPTER V. ELEVATION OF STRATA ABOVE THE SEA.—HORIZONTAL AND INCLINED STRATIFICATION.
- CHAPTER VI. DENUDATION
- CHAPTER VII. JOINT ACTION OF DENUDATION, UPHEAVAL, AND SUBSIDENCE IN REMODELLING THE EARTH’S CRUST.
- CHAPTER VIII. CHRONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS.
- CHAPTER IX. CLASSIFICATION OF TERTIARY FORMATIONS.
- CHAPTER X. RECENT AND POST-PLIOCENE PERIODS.
- CHAPTER XI. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued—GLACIAL CONDITIONS.[1]
- CHAPTER XII. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued.—GLACIAL CONDITIONS, concluded.
- TERTIARY OR CAINOZOIC PERIOD
- CHAPTER XIII. PLIOCENE PERIOD
- CHAPTER XIV. MIOCENE PERIOD—UPPER MIOCENE.
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