INDEX. The Fossils, the names of which are printed in Italics, are figured in the Text. ABBEVILLE ANHYDROUS BISILICATES ABBEVILLE, flint tool, figure of, 122 Acadian series, 456 Acer trilobatum, Miocene, 187 Acrodus nobilis, Lias, 318 Adiantites Hibernica, Old Red, 410 on heterocercal fish-tails, 316 Aix-la-Chapelle, Cretaceous flora of, 262 Aldeby and Chillesford beds, 151 Alleghany Mts., thickness of Palæozoic bituminous coal of, 380 Alluvial deposits, Recent and Pleistocene, Alluvium, term explained, 77 in Auvergne, 78 Alpine blocks on the Jura, 131 Alps, age of metamorphic rocks in, 538 237 of upheaval and subsidence, 84 -schists of Norway and Sweden, 455 Cretaceous strata of, Conrad on, 266 South, gradual rise of land in, 48 Rhotomagensis, Chalk marl, 259 Amphibia, Carboniferous, 388 Amphibole group of minerals, 558 Amphistegina Hauering, Vienna basin, 192 Amphitherium Broderipii, Stonestie:d slate, 307 Omalii, Crag, 165 Asterophyllites foliosus, Coal, 370 Astrangia lineata (Anthophyllum lineatum), Astropecten crispatus, London clay, 229 Atlantic mud, composition of, 248 --Andesite, 572 -Hornblende group, 560 Auriferous deposits, 179, 554 Austen, Mr. Godwin, on marine deposit of on boulders in Chalk, 252 Australia, auriferous gravel of, 554 volcanic rocks of, 486, 488 Australian cave breccias, 128 Auvergne, alluvium in, 78 chain of extinct volcanoes in, 464, 479 freshwater strata of, 28 granite veins in, 549 Miocene volcanic rocks of, 489 Oligocene of, 200 Pleistocene volcanic eruptions in, 479 Pliocene, mammalis of, 174 springs from spent volcanoes, 517 Aricula contorta, Rhætic beds, 326 inæquivalvis, Lias, 314 socialis, Muschelkalk, 338 Aviculopecten papyraceus, Coal-measures, 382 of Auvergne, fossil, 201 --in Coprolite bed of Chloritic series, Birds of Paris basin, 234 Bischoff, Professor, on conversion of Coal on hydrothermal action, 518 B'ocks, Alpine, on the Jura, 139 Bohemia, Cambrian rocks of, 454 Silurian rocks of, 444 -silver veins in, 554 Bolderberg, in Belgium, Oligocene of, 202 of Upper Ludlow, 423 of the Trias, 326 Boom, Oligocene of, 202 Bordeaux, Miocene of, 181 Borrowdale series, 442 Botanical nomenclature, 173 Boucher de Perthes on Abbeville alluvium, 121 Brachiopoda, preponderance of, in older of the White Chalk, 253 Silurian period, 435 Bracklesham beds and Bagshot sands, 218 Breaks, palæontological, 70, 110 Breccias of Lower Permian, 350 Bristol, dolomitic conglomerate of, 331 Brixham cave near Torquay, 127 Brodie, Rev. P. B., on Lias insects, 323 Bronteus fabellifer, Devonian, 415 Bronze weapons of lake-dwellings, 118 Brora, Oolitic coal formation of, 309 227 -- of Faxoe, 246 flints, origin of, 249 fossils of the White, 253 iceborne boulders in the, 252 Lower White, without flints, 258 of North and South of Europe, 264 Upper White, 247 vitreous sponges of the, 251 Chalkpit with potstones, view of, 251 Champlain series, 154 Champoleon, junction of granite with Chara elastica, C. medicaginula, 33 Conularia ornata, Devonian, 414 Conus deperditus, Bracklesham, 221 Coprolite beds of Red and Coralline crags, Coprolites of fish, from the Chalk, 268, 322 rag, fossils of the, 298 Coralline or White Crag, 163 percentage of extinct species in, 167 Corals of the Carboniferous, 392 of the Devonian, 413 Miocene of United States, 177 Corbula písum, Hempstead beds, 208 Cordiates of the Coal, 378 Cornbrash or Forest Marble, 300 Cornstones, 408 Cornwall, granite veins in, 505 |