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The Student’s Elements of Geology

by Sir Charles Lyell

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — On the Different Classes of Rocks
  4. 4Chapter II — Aqueous Rocks — Their Composition and Forms of Stratif…
  5. 5Chapter III — Arrangement of Fossils in Strata — Fresh-Water and Ma…
  6. 6Chapter IV — Consolidation of Strata and Petrifaction of Fossils
  7. 7Chapter V — Elevation of Strata Above the Sea — Horizontal and Incl…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Denudation
  9. 9Chapter VII — Joint Action of Denudation, Upheaval, and Subsidence…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Chronological Classification of Rocks
  11. 11Chapter IX — Classification of Tertiary Formations
  12. 12Chapter X — Recent and Post-Pliocene Periods
  13. 13Chapter XI — Post-Pliocene Period, Continued — Glacial Conditions
  14. 14Chapter XII — Post-Pliocene Period, Continued — Glacial Conditions,…
  15. 15Tertiary or Cainozoic Period — Chapter XIII — Pliocene Period
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Miocene Period — Upper Miocene
  17. 17Chapter XV — Lower Miocene (Oligocene of Beyrich)
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Eocene Formations
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Upper Cretaceous Group
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Lower Cretaceous or Neocomian Formation
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Jurassic Group — Purbeck Beds and Oolite
  22. 22Chapter XX — Jurassic Group — Continued — Lias
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Trias, or New Red Sandstone Group
  24. 24Primary or Palæozoic Series — Chapter XXII — Permian or Magnesian L…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — The Coal or Carboniferous Group
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Flora and Fauna of the Carboniferous Period
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Devonian or Old Red Sandstone Group
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Silurian Group
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Cambrian and Laurentian Groups
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Volcanic Rocks
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — On the Ages of Volcanic Rocks
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Age of Volcanic Rocks — Continued
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — Plutonic Rocks
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — On the Different Ages of the Plutonic Rocks
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Metamorphic Rocks
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Metamorphic Rocks — Continued
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — On the Different Ages of the Metamorphic Rocks
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Mineral Veins

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