The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain: Volume II

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Author

Archibald Geikie

Title

The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain, Volume 2 (of 2)

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co., 1897

Credits

T Cosmas, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

Subject

Volcanoes -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66493

Release Date

January 5, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN — THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN — SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.MAPS
5. 5.CHAPTER XXIX THE CARBONIFEROUS VOLCANOES OF ENGLAND — 1. THE NORTH OF ENGLAND — 2. THE DERBYSHIRE TOADSTONES — 3. THE ISLE OF MAN — 4. EAST SOMERSET — 5. DEVONSHIRE
6. 6.CHAPTER XXX THE CARBONIFEROUS VOLCANOES OF IRELAND — 1. KING'S COUNTY — 2. THE LIMERICK BASIN — 3. THE VOLCANIC BRECCIAS OF DOUBTFUL AGE IN COUNTY CORK
7. 7.BOOK VII THE PERMIAN VOLCANOES
8. 8.CHAPTER XXXI THE PERMIAN VOLCANOES OF SCOTLAND — i. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS—NATURE OF MATERIALS ERUPTED — ii. GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE VOLCANIC DISTRICTS
9. 9.CHAPTER XXXII PERMIAN VOLCANOES OF ENGLAND — 1. DEVONSHIRE — 2. ERUPTIVE ROCKS IN THE MIDLAND COAL-FIELDS
10. 10.BOOK VIII THE VOLCANOES OF TERTIARY TIME — CHAPTER XXXIII
11. 11.CHAPTER XXXIV THE SYSTEM OF DYKES IN THE TERTIARY VOLCANIC SERIES — 1. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION — 2. TWO TYPES OF PROTRUSION — 3. NATURE OF COMPONENT ROCKS — 4. HADE — 5. BREADTH — 6. INTERRUPTIONS OF LATERAL CONTINUITY — 7. LENGTH — 8. PERSISTENCE OF MINERAL CHARACTERS
12. 12.CHAPTER XXXV THE SYSTEM OF DYKES— continued — 9. DIRECTION — 10. TERMINATION UPWARDS — 11. KNOWN VERTICAL EXTENSION — 12. EVIDENCE AS TO MOVEMENT OF THE MOLTEN ROCK IN THE FISSURES — 13. BRANCHING DYKES AND VEINS — 14. CONNECTION OF DYKES WITH SILLS — 15. INTERSECTION OF DYKES — 16. DYKES OF MORE THAN ONE IN-FILLING — 17. CONTACT-METAMORPHISM OF THE DYKES — 18. RELATION OF DYKES TO THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE DISTRICTS WHICH THEY TRAVERSE. — 19. DATA FOR ESTIMATING THE GEOLOGICAL AGE OF THE DYKES — 20. ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE DYKES
13. 13.CHAPTER XXXVI THE PLATEAUX — I. NATURE AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE ROCKS OF THE PLATEAUX — i. LAVAS — 1. Petrographical Characters — 2. Structure in the Field — ii. FRAGMENTAL ROCKS
14. 14.CHAPTER XXXVII THE SEVERAL BASALT-PLATEAUX AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL HISTORY, ANTRIM, MULL, MORVEN AND ARDNAMURCHAN — i. ANTRIM [230]
15. 15.CHAPTER XXXVIII THE BASALT-PLATEAU OF THE PARISH OF SMALL ISLES—RIVERS OF THE VOLCANIC PERIOD — iii. PARISH OF SMALL ISLES PLATEAU
16. 16.CHAPTER XXXIX THE BASALT-PLATEAUX OF SKYE AND OF THE FAROE ISLES — iv. THE SKYE PLATEAU — v. THE FAROE ISLANDS [265]
17. 17.CHAPTER XL THE MODERN VOLCANOES OF ICELAND AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TERTIARY VOLCANIC HISTORY OF NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE
18. 18.CHAPTER XLI THE ERUPTIVE VENTS OF THE BASALT-PLATEAUX — i. VENTS FILLED WITH DOLERITE, BASALT, ETC. — ii. VENTS FILLED WITH AGGLOMERATE
19. 19.CHAPTER XLII THE BASIC SILLS OF THE BASALT-PLATEAUX — i. ANTRIM — ii. SKYE — iii. EIGG, ARDNAMURCHAN — iv. FAROE ISLES — v. GENERAL DEDUCTIONS REGARDING THE TERTIARY BASIC SILLS
20. 20.CHAPTER XLIII THE BOSSES AND SHEETS OF GABBRO — i. PETROGRAPHY OF THE GABBRO AREAS — ii. RELATIONS OF THE GABBROS TO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE VOLCANIC SERIES — iii. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SEVERAL GABBRO-DISTRICTS — 1. The Gabbro of Skye
21. 21.CHAPTER XLIV — 2. The Island of Rum — 3. The Gabbro of Ardnamurchan — 4. The Gabbro of Mull — 5. The Gabbros of St. Kilda and North-east Ireland — iv. HISTORY OF THE GABBRO INTRUSIONS
22. 22.CHAPTER XLV THE ACID ROCKS — i. PETROGRAPHY OF THE ACID ROCKS — ii. STRATIGRAPHICAL POSITION.—ANALOGIES FROM CENTRAL FRANCE
23. 23.CHAPTER XLVI TYPES OF STRUCTURE IN THE ACID ROCKS—BOSSES — i. THE ACID BOSSES OF SKYE
24. 24.CHAPTER XLVII THE ACID BOSSES OF MULL, SMALL ISLES, ST. KILDA, ARRAN AND THE NORTH-EAST OF IRELAND — ii. THE ACID BOSSES OF MULL — iii. THE ACID BOSSES OF SMALL ISLES — iv. THE ROCKS OF ST. KILDA — V. THE GRANITE OF ARRAN — VI. THE NORTH-EAST OF IRELAND — 1. The Carlingford Region — 2. The Antrim Region
25. 25.CHAPTER XLVIII THE ACID SILLS, DYKES AND VEINS — i. THE SILLS — ii. THE ACID DYKES AND VEINS
26. 26.CHAPTER XLIX THE SUBSIDENCES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE PLATEAUX — i. SUBSIDENCES — ii. DISLOCATIONS
27. 27.CHAPTER L EFFECTS OF DENUDATION
28. 28.CHAPTER LI SUMMARY AND GENERAL DEDUCTIONS
29. 29.INDEX

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