Elements of geology, or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments / by Sir Charles Lyell.

  • Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875.
Date:
1865
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    BEA Bean, Mr , on fossil shells from Oolite, 408 Beaumont, M. E. de, on line between Miocene and Eocene, 216 on pisolitic limestone, 311 _ on Chalk, 334 on island in Eocene sea, 365 — on Lias, 414 on formation of granite, 697 — on chemical deposits in veins, 707 on Jurassic plutonic rocks, 715 _ on plutonic action in Alps, 748 Beauport, near Quebec, glacial drift at, 163 Beche, Sir H. de la, on marine lizards, 424 on Oolite, 427 on teeth of saurians, 445 j on trap of New Red, 689 on Redruth copper-mine, 763 Beck, Dr., on graptolites, 561 — on Jutland seaweed, 322 on Phryganea, 225 Becktes, Mr. S. H., on mammalia of Purbeck, 379 4 on upper jaw of mammals, 383 on footprints in Hastings Sands, 385 Belemnites Puxosianus, Oxford clay, 398 mucronatus (Belemnitella mucronala), 323 hastntus, Oxford clay, 397 Belgian fossils, 236 Miocene formations, 232 Belgium, Limburg beds of, 239 Miocene strata of, 234 Bellerophon costatus, 516 Belospia scpioidea, Sheppey, 291 i Bembridge beds, 279 Bentham, Mr., on Miocene Atlantis, 266 Berger, Dr., on rocks altered by dikes, 607 Berlin, Tertiary strata near, 235 Bermuda Islands, rocks of, 78 Bernese Alps, gneiss in, 752 Berthier, M., on augite and hornblende, 591 Bertrich-Baden, basaltic pillars at, 612 Beudant, Mr., on volcanic rocks of Hungary, 675 Beyrich, M., on German Miocene strata, 234, 244 Biaritz, calcareous cliffs of, 72 Bilin tripoli, composed of Diatomaceae, 25 Binney, on Stigmaria, 472 Bird, in Argile plastique, 303 footprints of, 452 Bischoff, Prof., on Nile mud. 119 on Aix-la-Chapelle spring, 733 Black crag, recent species in, 206 Blackdown beds, 329 Black River, limestone fossils of, 567 Blackwood, Capt., on Island of St. Paul, 635 Blainville, M. de, on quadrupeds of Gers, 231 Boblaye, M., on inland cliffs, 73 cited, 560 Bog-iron-ore, 26 Bohemia, Cambrian rocks of, 574 veins of silver, 769 Bolderberg in Belgium, Upper Miocene of, 233 Bone of reptile. Great Oolite, Woodstock, 403 Bone-bed offish remains, Armagh, 517 of Upper Ludlow, 548 Bone-beds, triassic, in Wurtemberg, 431 Bonelli, Prof., cited, 187 on Italian Tertiary strata, 182 Boom and Rupelmonde, 235 Bordeaux, Miocene strata of, 230 Borrowdale, black-lead of, 38 Bosquet, M., on chalk fossils, 332 on Maestricht, beds, 313 Boston, U. S., contorted strata near, 157 Boucher de Perthes, M., on Abbeville alluvium, 115 Boue, M. Ami, on human skeleton of Rhine, 117 on Hungarian shells, 676 — on arrangement of rocks, 92 BUC Boulder clay, described, 137 formation in Canada, 162 formation in England, 158 fauna of, 160 Bournemouth, vegetation of, 288 Boutigny, on evaporation of water from granite, 701 Bovey Tracey, lignites of, 238 Bowen, Lieut. A., R.N., drawings of rocks in Gulf of St. Lawrence, 78 Bowerbank, Mr., on plants of Sheppey, 290 Bowman, Mr., on coal-seams, 497 Brachiopoda, Devonian, 583 Brachycephalous skull, 113 Brackish-water and marine strata in coal, 490 Bracklcsham, beds, fossils of, 286 Bradford Encrinites, 399 Brash, term explained, 81 Bravard, M., on fossils of Mount Perrier, 680 Brazil, ossiferous caves of, 128 Breccia on ancient waste-lines, 73 Breccias of the Caldera of Palma, 626 Brecciated limestone, 457 Brick-earth, or fluviatile loam, 117 Bridlington beds, fossils of, 198 Brighton, elephant-bed of, 371 Bristol, Dolomitic conglomerate of, 444 section of strata near, 99 British Miocene formations, 232 Brixham cave, near Torquay, 124 Brocchi, on Italian Tertiary strata, 182 on Subapennine strata, 207 Brockedon, Mr., on black-lead, 38 Brockenhurst, shells of, 284 Brodie, Mr., on Purbeck mammalia, 379 Rev. P. B., on Lias insects, 425 Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on groups of fossil plants, 332 on ferns, 466, 467 on botanical nomenclature, 331 on erect fossil trees, 480 on flora of Bunter, 438 on age of acrogens, 476 on Lias plants, 426 on Eocene flora, 289 on catamites, 470 Brongniart, M. Alex., on Tertiary series, 181 on Eocene strata of France, 295 on shells of nummulitic formation, 305 on coal-mine near Lyons, 430 Bronn, on St. Cassian fossils, 435 Brontes flabellifer, 536 Bronze implements found at Pompeii, 112 at Herculaneum, 112 utensils at Nidau, 111 Brora, Oolitic coal formation, 408 Brown, Mr. R., on Stigmarise, 472 on Cape Breton coal-field, 485 on carboniferous rain-prints, 486 Brown-coal of the Eifel, 672 Brownsville, view of coal at, 499 Bryce, on two granites of Arran, 720 Bryozoum, term explained, 201 Buch, Von. See Von Buch Buckley, Dr., on Eocene, U.S., 307 Buckland, Dr., on violent death of saurians, 424 on preservation of lower jaws, 383 on dirt-bed at Thame, 389 on spines of fish, 420 on Bristol conglomerate, 445 on chalk flints, 319 Bridgewater Treatise, cited, 401, 403 on footprints of Trias, 442 on term Poikilitic, 430 on Antrim chalk, 321 on Eocene oysters, 293 on coal-plants, 477 on Kirkdale Cave, 124