World Before
The World Before the Deluge
作者：Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894; Bristow, Henry W. (Henry William), 1817-1889 [Editor]
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共 102 题- CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PREFACE.
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
- I. The hypothesis of the original incandescence of the globe.
- II. The consideration of fossils.
- III. The successive deposition of the sedimentary rocks.
- FOSSILS.
- CHEMICAL AND NEBULAR HYPOTHESES OF THE GLOBE.
- MODIFICATIONS OF THE SURFACE OF THE GLOBE.
- ORDER OF STRATIFICATION.
- ERUPTIVE ROCKS.
- PLUTONIC ERUPTIONS.
- VOLCANIC ROCKS.
- TRACHYTIC FORMATIONS.
- BASALTIC FORMATIONS.
- VOLCANIC OR LAVA FORMATIONS.
- METAMORPHIC ROCKS.
- GENERAL METAMORPHISM.
- THE BEGINNING.
- PRIMARY EPOCH.
- CAMBRIAN PERIOD.
- THE SILURIAN PERIOD.
- LOWER SILURIAN.
- LOWER SILURIAN GROUP.
- CAMBRIAN GROUP.
- LAURENTIAN GROUP.
- UPPER SILURIAN PERIOD.
- POLYOLBION.
- OLD RED SANDSTONE AND DEVONIAN PERIOD.
- CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD.
- CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE. (SUB-PERIOD.)
- COAL MEASURES. (SUB-PERIOD.)
- III. Gymnogens Dicotyledonous Gymnosperms Conifers and Cycads.
- FORMATION OF BEDS OF COAL.
- Passing from these speculations to the Coal-measures:--
- ESTIMATED AREA OF THE COAL-MEASURES OF THE WORLD.
- PERMIAN PERIOD.
- NORTH OF ENGLAND. THURINGIA. MINERAL CHARACTER.
- 4. Compact limestone 4. Lower Zechstein 4. Magnesian limestones.
- SECONDARY EPOCH.
- THE TRIASSIC, OR NEW RED PERIOD.
- ENGLAND. FRANCE. GERMANY.
- NEW RED SANDSTONE.
- KEUPER SUB-PERIOD.
- RHÆTIC, OR PENARTH SUB-PERIOD.
- JURASSIC PERIOD.
- THE LIAS
- FERNS. CYCADS. CONIFERS.
- OOLITIC SUB-PERIOD.
- UPPER. MIDDLE. LOWER.
- LOWER OOLITE FAUNA.
- LOWER OOLITE ROCKS.
- MIDDLE OOLITE.
- UPPER OOLITE.
- Shell of Physa fontinalis.]
- THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD.
- Fig. 126.--Chalk of Meudon (magnified).]
- Fig. 127.--Chalk of Gravesend. (After Ehrenberg).--Magnified.]
- Fig. 128.--Chalk of the Isle of Moën, Denmark.]
- Fig. 129.--Chalk of Cattolica, Sicily (magnified).]
- THE LOWER CRETACEOUS PERIOD.
- Two-thirds natural size.]
- 1, Beryx Lewesiensis; 2, Osmeroides Mantelli.]
- UPPER CRETACEOUS PERIOD.
- The invertebrate animals which characterise the Cretaceous age are among
- CEPHALOPODA.
- GASTEROPODA.
- ACEPHALA.
- BRACHIOPODA.
- POLYZOA (BRYOZOA) AND ESCHINODEMATA.
- 1. POLYPI; 2. FORAMINIFERA; 3. AMORPHOZOA.
- TERTIARY PERIOD.
- THE EOCENE PERIOD.
- THE MIOCENE PERIOD.
- A, B, the whole head; C, lower jaw.]
- Living form.]
- PLIOCENE PERIOD.
- And our pious author exclaims, this time taking the lyrical form--
- QUATERNARY EPOCH.
- 1. The European Deluges.
- 2. The Glacial Period.
- 3. The creation of man and subsequent Asiatic Deluge.
- POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD.
- EUROPEAN DELUGES.
- GLACIAL PERIOD.
- CREATION OF MAN AND THE ASIATIC DELUGE.
- 12. “And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”
- 24. “And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.”
- EPILOGUE.
- BY H. W. BRISTOW.
- EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS TABLE.
- INDEX.
- THE END.
- MESSRS. CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN
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