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Scoriæ (Gr. skoria, dross): loose fragments of slaggy, cindery lava.

Screes (Icel. skritha, fallen rocks on a hillside): a Westmoreland term for the sheets of loose angular stones which gather upon hillsides and at the base of cliffs, etc.

Shearing: the yielding of a rock to compression, strain, and tension during crustal movements, whereby the solid mass is compelled to flow, so that a kind of fluxion-structure is developed in it; frequently under such conditions dislocation takes place the rock gives way and one mass is pushed over another.

Sheet: molten matter intruded between bedded rocks.

Stalactites (Gr. stalaktos, dropping): the icicle-like pendants hanging from the roofs of limestone caves, formed by the drip of water holding carbonate of lime in solution.

Stalagmites (Gr. stalagmos, a dropping): the calcareous deposit formed upon the floor of a cavern by the drip of water from the roof.

Stoss-seite: see Lee-seite.

Striæ, glacial: scratches, furrows, etc., engraved upon rock-surfaces by glacial action.

Strike the general direction or run of the outcrops of strata.

Swallow-holes: see Dolina.

Syenite (from Syene, Egypt): a holocrystalline igneous rock of deep-seated origin.

Syncline (Gr. syn, together; klino, I lean): a basin or trough-shaped arrangement of strata; the strata dip from opposite directions inwards to one common axis. When the axis is vertical the syncline is symmetrical; when inclined, unsymmetrical.

Systems: the larger divisions of strata included under the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cainozoic, and Quaternary groups.

Terrigenous: applied to marine accumulations the materials of which have been derived from land; opposed to abysmal, applied to marine deposits the constituents of which have not been so derived.

Thrust-plane a Reversed fault (q. v.), the hade or inclination of which approaches horizontality; a common structure in regions of highly flexed rocks.

Till: another name (Scottish) for Boulder-clay (q. v.).

Tors: the peculiar and often fantastic prominences met with in regions of granite which have been long exposed to weathering, as on Dartmoor. The kopjes of Mashonaland are an example of the same phenomenon.

Trachyte (Gr. trachys, rough): a hemicrystalline volcanic rock,

Travertine: another name for Calc-sinter (q. v.).

Triassic (Gr. trias, three): one of the Mesozoic systems.

Tufa, or calcareous tufa: same as Calc-sinter, Travertine (q. v.). Tuff: a volcanic fragmental rock; usually applied to the finer-grained ejecta of volcanic eruptions; may consist almost entirely of lapilli (q. v.) or of the finest sand and dust, or of a mixture of coarse and fine ingredients.

Unconformable: not conforming in position, or not having the same inclination or dip with underlying rocks; applied to strata which rest upon an eroded surface of older rocks; unconformity or unconformability, the condition of not being conformable.

Underclay the bed upon which a coal-seam rests.

Uniclinal (L. unus, one ; Gr. klino, to lean): applied to a series of strata dipping in one and the same direction.

Upthrow, upcast: that side of a fault on which the strata lie at a higher level than their continuations on the other side of the fault. Normal faults are usually described as downthrows; reversed faults as upthrows.

Wâdy (Ar.): a ravine or watercourse, dry except in the rainy season. Some wâdies are perennially dry.

Weathering: applied to the decomposition, disintegration, and breaking up of the superficial parts of rocks under the general action of changes of temperature, and of wind, rain, frost, etc.

Zeolites (Gr. zeo, I boil; lithos, stone): a group of minerals, so called because they bubble up in the blowpipe flame; often met with filling up vesicular cavities, etc., in igneous rocks.

INDEX

Aar Glacier, 215

Abrasion by ice, 216, 241, 248
Abyssinia, plateaux of, 186, 339
Accumulation-mountains, 340
Achumore, 97

Eolian action, 24, 250
-basins, 257, 260, 284
African coasts, 328
lakes, 162, 279
Afton Water, 138
Air volcanoes. 185
Aix-la-Chapelle, 127
Akabah, gulf, 159
Aletsch Glacier, 306
Alluvial basins, 283

terraces, 7, 49, 50
Alpine glaciers, work done by, 213,
217

- lands, glacial phenomena of, 227,
246, 247

Alps, the, 93, 109, 119, 208, 214, 216,
217, 231, 284, 291, 293, 296, 312,
351

Amazon, delta, 52

river, 7

Andes, cirques, 292
Andesite, 174, 201

Animals, geological action of, 29
Annan Water, 133
Anticlinal double-fold, 96

- hills and mountains, 88, 91, 104, III
valleys, 10, 85, 86, 112, 116, 117
Anticlines, symmetrical, 85, 86, 88,
90, 105, 112, 115, 117, 119
unsymmetrical, 10, 93, 94, 99, 107,
116, 120

Antilebanon, 162

Antrim, basalts, 186, 191

Appalachian Mountains, 93, 118

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Conglomerate, 3, 22

Connel Water, 138

Constance, lake, 293, 298

Constriction-basins, 299, 302

Constructional valleys, 347

Continental plateaux, 339

Coral reefs, 334

Cordilleras, 93, 119

Cornet, M., 127

Cornwall, sea-caves, 276

Corrie, see Cirque.

Cotswold Hills, 83, 345

Coulmore, 71

Crag-and-tail, 242

Crater lakes, 281

Cree, river, 133

Crevasses in glaciers, 216, 218
Crieff, 192

Crustal deformation, 13, 47, 48, 179,

209, 280, 330

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