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A Manual of Elementary Geology

by Sir Charles Lyell

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  1. 1Dedication — Epigraph
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3Preface to the Fourth Edition
  4. 4Postscript
  5. 5Dates of the Successive Editions of the “Principles” and “Elements”…
  6. 6I · II — III
  7. 7IV
  8. 8Chapter I — On the Different Classes of Rocks
  9. 9Chapter II — Aqueous Rocks — Their Composition and Forms of Stratif…
  10. 10Chapter III — Arrangement of Fossils in Strata — Freshwater and Marine
  11. 11Chapter IV — Consolidation of Strata and Petrifaction of Fossils
  12. 12Chapter V — Elevation of Strata Above the Sea — Horizontal and Incl…
  13. 13Chapter VI — Denudation
  14. 14Chapter VII — Alluvium
  15. 15Chapter VIII — Chronological Classification of Rocks
  16. 16Chapter IX — On the Different Ages of the Aqueous Rocks
  17. 17Chapter X — Classification of Tertiary Formations — Post-Pliocene G…
  18. 18Chapter XI — Newer Pliocene Period — Boulder Formation
  19. 19Chapter XII — Boulder Formation — Continued
  20. 20Chapter XIII — Newer Pliocene Strata and Cavern Deposits
  21. 21Chapter XIV — Older Pliocene and Miocene Formations
  22. 22Chapter XV — Upper Eocene Formations
  23. 23Chapter XVI — Eocene Formations — Continued
  24. 24Chapter XVII — Cretaceous Group
  25. 25Chapter XVIII — Wealden Group
  26. 26Chapter XIX — Denudation of the Chalk and Wealden
  27. 27Chapter XX — Oolite and Lias
  28. 28Chapter XXI — Oolite and Lias — Continued
  29. 29Chapter XXII — Trias or New Red Sandstone Group
  30. 30Chapter XXIII — Permian or Magnesian Limestone Group
  31. 31Chapter XXIV — The Coal, or Carboniferous Group
  32. 32Chapter XXV — Carboniferous Group — Continued
  33. 33Chapter XXVI — Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian Group
  34. 34Chapter XXVII — Silurian Group
  35. 35Chapter XXVIII — Volcanic Rocks
  36. 36Chapter XXIX — Volcanic Rocks — Continued
  37. 37Chapter XXX — On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks
  38. 38Chapter XXXI — On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks — Continued
  39. 39Chapter XXXII — On the Different Ages of the Volcanic Rocks — Conti…
  40. 40Chapter XXXIII — Plutonic Rocks — Granite
  41. 41Chapter XXXIV — On the Different Ages of the Plutonic Rocks
  42. 42Chapter XXXV — Metamorphic Rocks
  43. 43Chapter XXXVI — Metamorphic Rocks — Continued
  44. 44Chapter XXXVII — On the Different Ages of the Metamorphic Rocks
  45. 45Chapter XXXVIII — Mineral Veins
  46. 46Z.

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