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The World before the Deluge

The World before the Deluge

by Louis Figuier

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Author
Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894
Title
The World Before the Deluge
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
QE: Science: Geology
Subject
Geology, Stratigraphic
Category
Text
eBook-No.
39723
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39723
Release Date
May 18, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE World before the Deluge.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.PREFACE.
  5. 5.GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. — Fossils. — Chemical and Nebular Hypotheses of the Globe. — Modifications of the Surface of the Globe. — ORDER OF STRATIFICATION.
  6. 6.ERUPTIVE ROCKS. — Plutonic Eruptions. — Volcanic Rocks. — Trachytic Formations. — Basaltic Formations. — Volcanic or Lava Formations. — Metamorphic Rocks. — General Metamorphism.
  7. 7.THE BEGINNING.
  8. 8.PRIMARY EPOCH. — Cambrian Period. — The Silurian Period. — Lower Silurian. — Upper Silurian Period. — OLD RED SANDSTONE AND DEVONIAN PERIOD. — CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD. — Carboniferous Limestone. (Sub-period.) — Coal Measures. (Sub-period.) — Formation of Beds of Coal. — PERMIAN PERIOD.
  9. 9.SECONDARY EPOCH. — The Triassic, or New Red Period. — New Red Sandstone. — Keuper Sub-period. — RHÆTIC, OR PENARTH SUB-PERIOD. — JURASSIC PERIOD. — The Lias — Oolitic Sub-period. — Lower Oolite Fauna. — Lower Oolite Rocks. — Middle Oolite. — Upper Oolite. — THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD. — The Lower Cretaceous Period. — Upper Cretaceous Period.
  10. 10.TERTIARY PERIOD. — THE EOCENE PERIOD. — THE MIOCENE PERIOD. — PLIOCENE PERIOD.
  11. 11.QUATERNARY EPOCH. — Post-Pliocene Period. — EUROPEAN DELUGES. — GLACIAL PERIOD. — CREATION OF MAN AND THE ASIATIC DELUGE.
  12. 12.EPILOGUE.
  13. 13.TABLE OF BRITISH SEDIMENTARY AND FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA.
  14. 14.EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS TABLE.
  15. 15.INDEX.
  16. 16.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: — Textual remarks: — Changes made to original text:

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