A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - 621 pàgines

PREFACE	vii

to	xxxv

Page	xliii

General Observations on the Forms of Matter	1

Nature of heatits undulatory propagation	7

Preexisting chaosinadmissibleOrigin of that notion	16

The Atmosphere	51

Daniells theory of clouds	63

The chalk formation of England and the Continent	279

Its organic remains Echinite family characteristic	285

Organic remains numerous and peculiar	299

Lower freshwater formation	305

Tertiary strata round Paris	311

First freshwater formation plastic clay lignite sandstone	317

marls	323

The superior sandstones and marine sands	333

Atmosphere of the primeval globe	69

Composition and complex relations of water	77

Creation and analogies of fishes and fowls	83

Crust of the globe formed from six explosive elements	91

7	93

Si Gneiss formationits flexures figured	100

Primitive limestoneclassification of primitive strata	107

Strata often elevated without the upheaving rocks bursting	120

BOOK II	129

10	131

Greywacke an intermediate or transitionrock	141

Transition limestoneits organic remains	149

16	154

Of coalformations in general	155

Remarkable intersections by trap dykes	161

Localities of coal enumerated	171

Its organic remains illustrated by engravings in wood	177

21	182

Figured section of English superposition in the order	185

Its great fossil lizards or monitors in Thuringia	191

LiasSection of its beds at Westbury Cliff	198

Fossil tortoises and turtles	213

Enormous Megalosaurus of Buckland	221

Ichthyosaurustooth figuredcharacteristic	233

Form and habits of the living animal described by	243

fx Beds between the chalk and oolite series	272

Concluding observations on tertiary strata	341

Physical events subordinate to moral purpose	349

Tracks of travelled diluvium now visible	365

Valleys of denudation scooped out by the deluge	373

Amount of volcanic fires	379

Sir H Davy on volcanic action	389

True cause of the phenomena investigated	399

Great trap district of Ireland	412

Basaltic eruptions in the Alps	418

The constitution of the Primeval World and	425

34	426

Secondary strata consist of triads	431

Flora of the ancient earth illustrated by figures	441

Cactuses of the coalmeasures see plate VI	449

Polyparies of primeval growthwith general table of living	456

49	457

Coral islands raised above sealevel by volcanic power	465

Earth of the antediluvians destroyed	471

Diluvial defluxits enormous power illustrated	479

71	489

Primeval stock of animals extinct and face of earth revivified	501

Bony framework of existing species invariable	514

Mastodonte of the Ohio with figure of tooth	526

Bonebreccias of the Mediterranean coasts	584

Concluding reflections	615

Explanation of Plates	621

Títol	A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History
Autor	Andrew Ure
Editor	Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829
Original de	Universitat de Virgínia
Digitalitzat el	28 Oct. 2010
Nre. de pàgines	621 pàgines

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