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Essay on the Theory of the Earth

by baron Georges Cuvier

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  1. 1Preface to the Fifth Edition
  2. 2Preface to the Third Edition
  3. 3Epigraph
  4. 4Preliminary Observations
  5. 5Plan of This Essay
  6. 6First Appearance of the Earth
  7. 7First Proofs of Revolutions on the Surface of the Globe
  8. 8Proofs That Such Revolutions Have Been Numerous
  9. 9Proofs That These Revolutions Have Been Sudden
  10. 10Proofs That There Have Been Revolutions Anterior to the Existence o…
  11. 11Examination of the Causes Which Act at Present on the Surface of th…
  12. 12Of Slips, or Falling Down of the Materials of Mountains
  13. 13Alluvial Formations
  14. 14Formation of Downs
  15. 15Formation of Cliffs or Steep Shores
  16. 16Depositions Formed in Water
  17. 17Stalactites
  18. 18Lithophytes
  19. 19Incrustation
  20. 20Volcanoes
  21. 21Constant Astronomical Causes
  22. 22Older Systems of Geologists
  23. 23More Recent Systems
  24. 24Diversities of All the Systems
  25. 25Causes of These Differences
  26. 26Nature and Conditions of the Problem
  27. 27Reason for Which the Conditions of the Problem Have Been Neglected
  28. 28Progress of Mineral Geology
  29. 29Importance of Fossil Remains in Geology
  30. 30High Importance of the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds
  31. 31Small Probability of Discovering New Species of Large Quadrupeds
  32. 32Inquiry Respecting the Fabulous Animals of the Ancients
  33. 33Difficulty of Determining the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds
  34. 34Principle by Which This Determination Is Effected
  35. 35View of the General Results of These Researches
  36. 36Relations of the Species of Fossil Animals With the Strata in Which…
  37. 37Proofs That the Extinct Species of Quadrupeds Are Not Varieties of…
  38. 38Proofs That There Are No Fossil Human Bones
  39. 39Physical Proofs of the Newness of the Present Continents
  40. 40Additions of Land by the Action of Rivers
  41. 41Progress of the Downs
  42. 42Peat-Mosses and Slips
  43. 43The History of Nations Confirms the Newness of the Continents
  44. 44The Very Remote Antiquity Attributed to Certain Nations Is Not Supp…
  45. 45The Astronomical Monuments Left by the Ancients Do Not Bear the Exc…
  46. 46Construction and Use of the Table
  47. 47The Zodiac Is Far From Bearing in Itself a Certain and Excessively…
  48. 48Exaggerations Relative to the Antiquity of Certain Mining Operations
  49. 49General Conclusion Relative to the Period of the Last Revolution
  50. 50Further Researches to Be Made in Geology
  51. 51Recapitulation of the Observations Upon the Succession of the Terti…
  52. 52Enumeration of the Fossil Animals Recognised by the Author
  53. 53Appendix
  54. 54Geological Illustrations

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