METAMORPHIC ROCKS
INTRODUCTION[92]
Under the term "metamorphism," considered philologically, any change
may be included that is undergone by rocks after their original
deposition. Van Hise, in his monumental treatise, covers processes
of cementation and alteration by percolating waters, as well as those
larger changes that accompany earth-movement and the transference of
rocks into regions of igneous activity. It is, indeed, impossible to
draw any just line in this matter; but there is a general agreement
that "metamorphic rocks" are those that have been altered by heat or
pressure or both, either on a local or a regional scale, with the
result that new structures, or new minerals, or both, have arisen
in the mass. The efficacy of heat alone or of pressure alone, of
_contact-metamorphism_ or of _dynamo-metamorphism_, in producing
considerable changes has been much debated. Some of the thermal
changes have been already referred to in the chapter on igneous rocks.
While, moreover, the new structures and the development of mica in
ordinary slate bring it into the metamorphic group, we have found it
convenient to describe the slates in connexion with common clays. The
rocks now to be dealt with give evidence of more extreme changes, and
the crystalline character of their constituents is appreciable by the
unaided eye. For the most part, then, this chapter treats of _gneisses_
and _schists_. The wider use of the terms _schiste_ and _schiefer_ on
the continent of Europe makes it necessary in most countries to style
the metamorphic forms "crystalline schists."
Over wide areas of certain countries, and sometimes when we approach
the localised cores of mountain-chains, the rocks show a parallel
arrangement of their constituents, reminding us of sediments; but their
constituents are all crystalline, and they are more interlocked with
one another than is the case in ordinary strata.
Such rocks have long been said to be "foliated." The term was used by
G. P. Scrope as far back as 1825; but this author, in common with most
geologists of his day, regarded the mineral folia as resulting from
sedimentation. D'Aubuisson de Voisins[93] had already referred the
parallelism of the _feuillets_ of mica in schists to some cause acting
on them during the consolidation of the rock from a plastic state; but
it was left for Charles Darwin[94], in his remarkable observations
on metamorphic rocks in 1846, to separate clearly _foliation_ from
stratification.
In all cases of metamorphism, we have to bear in mind that the
alteration may be both chemical and physical. Substances may have been
removed from the rock, others may have been imported. The crystalline
constituents that are now present do not necessarily result from the
crystallisation of the original materials of the rock.
MICA AND HORNBLENDE SCHISTS
_Schists_ are the ordinary foliated rocks of fine or medium grain. The
folia are really flattened lenticular mineral aggregates, often bent
and waved, lying on and against one another, with their platy surfaces
in parallel planes. They result (i) from the deformation under pressure
of objects already present in the rock, such as pebbles or crystals; or
(ii) from the development of minerals under pressure during the process
of metamorphism, such minerals being allowed greater facilities for
growth in directions perpendicular to that from which the pressure is
exerted; or (iii) from the development of minerals, notably mica, along
the planes of weakness provided by stratification or by cleavage.
The trend of foliation-planes across a country is often, as Darwin
pointed out, remarkably regular; in some cases, it follows that of
the stratification, in others that of cleavage. The wrinkling of the
foliation must be ascribed to subsequent compression, and all the
features seen in the "strain-slip" structure of slate (p. 92) are
repeated on a somewhat coarser scale in schists.
Some schists are undoubtedly produced by the contact-metamorphism of
shales. On the flanks of mountain-chains, where argillaceous rocks have
been arched into domes, and where granite has intruded as a core, the
complete passage can be traced from sediment to schist. The clay-rocks
lend themselves readily to the production of mica, usually of the pale
type. Andalusite, and occasionally sillimanite and kyanite, arise.
Andalusite often forms grey prisms of irregular outline, resembling
slate-pencils, and standing out above the mica on any weathered
surface. Almandine garnet is almost always present. Quartz occurs in
streaks and patches, which resolve themselves into granular aggregates
on microscopic examination. The mica imparts a distinct foliation to
the mass; but the original stratification is very often preserved, and
the minerals have developed along its planes. Small differences in
the constitution of the original strata give rise to different types
of schist, interbedded with one another. Andalusite, for instance,
may occur only in certain argillaceous layers, while other layers are
quartzose, through the presence of original sand. _Mica-schist_ is the
commonest type of metamorphic rock.
Where mineralisation has taken place over a wide area, it may be
difficult to say if the foliation-planes in a schist are those of
bedding, or of superinduced cleavage, or whether they indicate a
sliding movement in the mass under pressure, whereby all preceding
structures have become obliterated.
_Amphibole-schist_, often styled _epidiorite_, consists of foliated
hornblende, or its greener ally actinolite, associated with granular
felspar and sometimes with equally granular quartz. The amphibole
being usually prismatic, the crystals are found with their longer axes
arranged in parallel planes, and often streaked out parallel to one
another. Minute wrinklings, due to subsequent yielding, are not so
frequent as in mica-schists. Amphibole-schists occur commonly as knots
and somewhat irregular masses among mica-schists, and represent basic
igneous rocks that were interbedded or intrusive in the sedimentary
series. The pyroxene of the original rock has become recrystallised as
hornblende, and the felspathic constituent has rearranged itself in
granular forms. J. J. H. Teall[95] has described in interesting detail
an example from the older rocks of Sutherland, and his paper contains a
useful discussion of problems of pressure-metamorphism.
AMPHIBOLITES
Hornblende-schists are often seen to pass into true diorites; but
they also have relationships with the more puzzling rocks known as
_amphibolites_. These, again, graduate into _pyroxenites_, or rocks
rich in pyroxene, with granular quartz and triclinic felspar, and into
_eclogites_, which may be defined as pyroxenites with garnet.
Pyroxene-eclogite, in South Africa, is associated with diamond[96], and
fragments of exploded eclogite abound in the igneous vents from which
the diamonds are extracted.
What has been called "pyroxene-granulite" is a dark granular eclogite,
including rhombic pyroxene side by side with garnet, and associated,
in Saxony and Skye, with igneous intrusions. In both localities it
has been shown to result from the inclusion of basic rocks, such as
dolerites and gabbros, in a bath of some invading magma. The lens-like
form of the Saxon masses, and the occurrence also of sheets of
pyroxene-granulite interlaminated with fine-grained granite, were till
lately attributed to the rolling-out action of pressure-metamorphism.
By what H. Credner calls a complete reversal of opinion, due mainly
to the opening of new railway-sections, the granular eclogites of
Saxony are now regarded as products of extreme contact-alteration,
combined with igneous flow[97]. A. Harker[98] similarly points out that
examples in Skye are derived from basaltic lavas, into which gabbro has
intruded, producing a complete reconstruction of the rock.
Where a series of igneous rocks and sediments, in some cases already
altered by pressure, has been attacked and partly melted up by granite,
amphibolite-blocks are found as the common residue in the mingled mass.
The quartzites and mica-schists of the mantle that overlies the granite
dome may have disappeared by stoping and absorption (see p. 126). Rocks
rich in amphibole remain, and they commonly contain pyroxene as well as
hornblende. In some cases, as in Skye and Saxony, they may be traced
to basic igneous rocks; but in others they may be referred with equal
certainty to limestone. The interaction of the granite magma and the
calcareous sediment has produced a silicate rock completely different
from either.
Lévy[99] and Lacroix have shown how the amphibolites of France may
sometimes represent dolerites, sometimes limestones. Their work has
recently received striking support from the observations of the
Geological Survey of Canada[100]. Streaky hornblende-gneisses over
wide areas of Ontario are now attributed to the partial absorption
of overlying limestone by what was once regarded as a "fundamental"
granite. The amphibolite blocks have become drawn out into bands that
follow all the flow-structure of the invading igneous mass. A small
area of the same kind was studied in 1900 in north-west Ireland[101],
where a remarkably pure granitoid rock, consisting of quartz and alkali
felspar, has become enriched with dark mica at the expense of blocks of
amphibolite included in it.
METAMORPHIC MARBLES AND QUARTZITES
Some of the changes that convert limestone into crystalline marble have
already been referred to on pp. 36 and 54. The presence of mica in
limestones may allow of foliation when pressure comes to be applied to
them, and _calc-schists_ result. The mica may be detrital, or may arise
through the metamorphism of clayey bands; but it forms weak layers,
along which the shearing movements take place which lead to a schistose
structure in the mass. Pure granular marble may also occasionally
become converted into a calc-schist, by deformation of its crystalline
grains along gliding planes within each crystal.
When we consider quartzites, the same question rises as in the case
of crystalline limestones, and it is often difficult to state that a
quartzite owes its characters to metamorphism. Microscopic examination
sometimes reveals the effects of earth-pressures in the crushed and
powdered condition of the larger grains; and no rocks exhibit the power
of such pressures in producing structural modifications more strikingly
than the coarse quartz-grits that are sometimes involved in regions of
dynamic metamorphism. Pebbles and grains are alike deformed, pressed
out along planes of fracture, and finally reduced to bands of powdered
quartz. When felspathic pebbles occur in these grits, the resulting
schistose mass has almost the appearance of a banded igneous rock, and
streaky white mica may arise from the alteration of potassium felspar.
Some sandstones contain sufficient felspar or calcium carbonate to
form a flux when they are subjected to thermal metamorphism. At times
a glass thus arises between the grains, and reacts upon the original
quartz. When the igneous magma has melted up a sandstone or a
quartzite, blocks of the sediment may remain surrounded by a mixed and
recrystallised product from both rocks. Wright and Bailey[102] have
studied an example in Colonsay, where a hornblende rock has partly
dissolved a quartzite, the residual blocks being surrounded by "halos"
of interaction, composed of quartz and alkali felspar.
GNEISSES
_Gneisses_ may be broadly defined as banded crystalline rocks in which
felspar is visible to the unaided eye. Though this will include many
igneous masses, it is doubtful if a more rigid description can be
given. Numerous gneisses, in fact, owe their parallel structures to
flow while in a molten state. Others are rocks that have been deformed
by pressure, and their constituents have become drawn out along planes
of solid flow. Where actual shearing has taken place, the minerals in
the close neighbourhood of the planes of movement may become especially
modified, ground down, and deformed. The foliated structure may then
be marked by the appearance of differentiated bands. Such bands may
also arise from the spreading out under pressure of certain large
constituents, such as porphyritic crystals of felspar, which produce
white bands, or of pyroxene, which will become modified into granular
amphibole and will produce dark streaks through the rock.
[Illustration: Fig. 19. Composite Gneiss. Gartan Lough, Co. Donegal.
Fragments of mica-schist project from a gneiss, the banding of which
follows the foliation planes of the schist. On the right the mass
retains less schist and is more granitic.]
Gneisses may also result from the intrusion of felspathic igneous
rocks, in sheets of varying thickness, between the layers of a sediment
or a schist (Fig. 19); or from the intrusion of one igneous rock into
another, with varying degrees of interaction and absorption.
It has often been presumed that the invaded igneous rock must have
been in such cases in a plastic state. The supply of heat within the
earth during such processes, and the action of the gases, corroding, as
Doelter says, "like a blowpipe-flame," are, however, clearly sufficient
to melt down large blocks, the residue being then carried forward as
wisps or bands in the invader.
Many strikingly banded gneisses are thus of composite origin. Their
felspathic granitoid bands can be traced in the field to an igneous
source, while their darker and usually micaceous layers can as surely
be attributed to the invasion and incorporation of adjacent schists
(Fig. 20). But it is quite possible that in other cases the banded
gneiss is a sedimentary rock which has undergone what Judd[103] has
styled "statical metamorphism." The differences in successive bands
are then due to original differences in successive strata; one has
yielded a granitic layer, one a layer of quartzite, one, which was more
argillaceous, a layer of mica-schist. The bands in such a gneiss record
the stratification.
[Illustration: Fig. 20. Composite Gneiss formed by intrusion of granite
into hornblende-schist. Ängnö, near Saltsjöbaden, Sweden.]
Gneisses are often described as if they consisted of layers of various
minerals, quartz, felspar, and mica, alternating one with another. As a
matter of fact, a gneiss may exist in which there is no differentiation
into layers; the whole of the constituents have been drawn out and
elongated, any mica present becoming naturally conspicuous by its
flattened wisp-like forms. The banded gneisses, on the other hand,
where layer-structure is obvious, consist in reality of bands of
different rock-types. Sometimes all the layers are granitoid, but one
band will contain only quartz and felspar, while another will contain
the same minerals with an admixture, and perhaps a great predominance,
of mica.
G. P. Scrope[104] made an immense step forward when he realised in
1825 that such banded rocks, "the inferior crystalline zones," might
be pushed out of position and "protruded" among others "in a solid or
nearly solid state." He goes on, "The protrusion of the foliated rocks,
gneiss, mica-schist, clay-slate, etc. was chiefly occasioned by their
peculiar structure; the parallel plane surfaces of their component
crystals, particularly the plates of mica, sliding with facility
over one another; while the laminar structure of these rocks was in
turn increased during this process, the crystals being elongated in
the direction of their motion, as in the case of the clinkstones and
pearl-stones of the trachytic formation." After this, there was little
left for the later advocates of dynamo metamorphism to put forward.
While Darwin[105] recognised how the granite at Cape Town had
worked its way insidiously between the layers of a schist, it was
left for Michel Lévy to emphasise the part played by what is called
_lit-par-lit_ injection in the making of banded gneiss (see p. 120).
K. A. Lossen, Johann Lehmann, and other distinguished workers in
Germany made clear, on the other hand, the effects of pressure in
moulding and reforming crystalline rocks, and even in bringing about
the crystallisation of certain minerals in a previously sedimentary
mass.
The dynamo-metamorphic school assumed immense importance from 1884
onwards, the date of the publication of Lehmann's work on "Die
Entstehung der altkrystallinischen Schiefergesteine," and for a time
the intrusion of igneous masses was held, both in Germany and the
British Isles, to have had a merely local significance as a metamorphic
agent. Wherever "regional metamorphism" was spoken of, pressure-effects
were held to be predominant. Indeed, the profound modifications that
may occur in rocks when lowered into subterranean cauldrons is only now
becoming generally realised. The tendency to regard the structures of
large masses of gneiss as of necessity due to deformation and shearing
in a solid state has, however, passed away[106].
Pressure-effects are of course clearly traceable in most gneisses,
and are of immense importance in many metamorphic areas; but we find
again and again that gneissic structure has been injured rather than
developed by crushing subsequent to the consolidation of the rock.
In some cases, where this structure is due to igneous flow, which
of course often took place under considerable pressure, even the
puckerings of the stratified or foliated rock which was invaded by
the igneous magma have been followed by the invading sheets. In other
cases, as in the composite amphibolite gneiss of Canada, or the similar
rocks of the Ox Mountains in Ireland, the contortions in the mingled
mass are clearly due to the viscid flow of the consolidating invader.
The growing appreciation of the views on recurrent thermal metamorphism
that were originally propounded by James Hutton in 1785 has led to
the assignment of far younger ages to many masses previously regarded
as "fundamental" and Archæan. Some of these rocks are undoubtedly
of high antiquity, but are found to be intrusive in strata of a
late pre-Cambrian series. Others, such as the material of the Saxon
laccolite, and the gneisses on the north-east Bohemian border, are now
known to be of Upper Palæozoic age.
THE QUESTION OF A FUNDAMENTAL GNEISS
Ever since A. C. Lawson[107] showed in Canada how the Laurentian gneiss
had invaded and swallowed up the overlying Huronian rocks, suspicion
began to fall on the doctrine of a "fundamental" gneiss. We may now
well ask ourselves the following questions:--
(i) Was there a time in the early history of our globe when schists
and gneisses were deposited as a prevalent type of sediment, under
conditions which have not since recurred?
(ii) If so, which of the characters of these pre-Cambrian rocks are
original, and which have been acquired through subsequent metamorphism?
(iii) On the other hand, is the prevalence of gneiss and schist in
early pre-Cambrian groups of rock due to the fact that, the older the
rock, the more metamorphism, by recurrent heat and pressure, it is
likely to have undergone?
(iv) We may prefer the theory of Laplace, that the earth is cooling
from a molten state; or the planetesimal theory, according to which
heat has been developed during the consolidation and contraction of an
agglomerate of solid particles; yet in either case we must admit that
the earth's outer layers were once nearer to the heated parts of the
earth than they are now. Is it not likely, then, that early sediments
became frequently immersed in baths of molten matter, and that
contact-metamorphism and admixture on a regional scale have produced
in them the characters that have been attributed to a fundamental
gneiss[108]?
J. J. Sederholm[109] has traced in Finland four groups of Archæan
sedimentary material, which have been successively invaded by granite
from the depths. The bare wave-swept isles of Spikarna, east of Hangö,
serve as models of structures that are traceable throughout the Baltic
lands. The more we regard the oldest gneisses of one region after
another, the more we see in them igneous matter that has attempted
to assimilate sediments of still older date. The banded structures
that have been appealed to as indicating the power of earth-movements
to deform the solid crystalline crust prove, in very many cases, to
record the foliation of rocks that were already metamorphosed before
the igneous matter spread among them. In some of these cases, this
foliation followed planes of original stratification, and we are forced
to conclude that true sedimentary structure may after all control
the features of a gnarled and contorted fundamental gneiss. We are
still far from discovering the primitive crust formed about a molten
globe, and the brilliant proofs of evolution in the organic world
are unmatched by any evidence of the evolution of rock-types during
geological time.
METAMORPHIC ROCKS AND SCENERY
Metamorphic rocks are usually associated with the scenery of mountain,
moor, and forest. The highly altered siliceous masses furnish but
indifferent soils. The connexion between metamorphic rocks and
earth-crumpling, and their frequent penetration by granite, lead to the
production of rugged ridges and high moorlands, among which denudation
has cut romantic glens. The schists weather out on the valley-walls
along their foliation-surfaces, and scarps arise like those of
stratified rocks. The face of such a scarp is broken away in a zigzag
and splintery fashion, and the sharp edges of the foliated mass stand
out like teeth upon the sky-line. Gneisses associated with the schists
present a contrast of smoother surfaces, wherever denudation has been
long continued. Foliated diorites and amphibolites, however, may
produce wild crags that even overhang; while recently exposed gneiss,
at high altitudes, may give rise to pinnacles and serrated forms.
Where alternations of quartzite and mica-schist occur, irregularities
of the surface are readily maintained. Heather climbs upon the yellow
soils furnished by the schist, and trees may gather in its hollows; but
the quartzite stands out bare and dominant. In some cases the upturned
beds of the latter weather out like dykes across the country.
Worn-down plateaus of ancient gneiss, the mere residues of
mountain-land, may be seen in the storm-swept levels of the Outer
Hebrides, and in the hummocky country, a swelling sea of bare grey rock
and peat-filled hollows, that borders all the west of Sutherland. The
irregular weathering of mica-schist, and the readiness with which it
can be carved by streams, control the bold landscapes of the highlands
from the Trossachs to Lough Ness, and thence away again to the
northern sea. Here and there, great domes of intrusive granite rise
amid the broken moorlands; at times, a white cone of quartzite catches
the eye with a gleam like that of snow. We may traverse this country
as an introduction to the high glacial plateaus and deeply notched
seaward slopes of the metamorphic lands of Norway; or to the contrasts
of jagged schists and resisting gneisses that meets us as we near the
Alpine core.
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[Footnote 54: Harker, _op. cit._, ref. 47, p. 19.]
[Footnote 55: Leith, _op. cit._, ref. 48, p. 152.]
[Footnote 56: I. Russell, "Glaciers of N. America" (1897), 25.]
[Footnote 57: See, for instance, T. W. Edgeworth David, "Evidences
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[Footnote 59: Cross, Iddings, Pirsson, and Washington,
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[Footnote 60: Harker, _op. cit._, ref. 58, p. 186.]
[Footnote 61: Iddings, _op. cit._, ref. 58, p. 130 &c.]
[Footnote 62: _Ibid._, pp. 228-241.]
[Footnote 63: Scrope, "Considerations on Volcanos" (1825), 141.]
[Footnote 64: G. A. J. Cole and J. W. Gregory, "Variolitic Rocks of
Mt Genèvre," Q. Journ. Geol. Soc., =46= (1890), 311.]
[Footnote 65: A. Geikie, "Ancient Volcanoes of Gt Britain,"
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[Footnote 66: Anderson, "Volcano of Matavanu," _ibid._, =66=
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[Footnote 67: Dewey and Flett, "British Pillow lavas," Geol. Mag.
(1911), 202 and 241.]
[Footnote 68: Steinmann, "Die Schardtsche Ueberfaltungstheorie
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[Footnote 69: Doelter, "Petrogenesis" (1906), 33 and 109-123.]
[Footnote 70: Harker, _op. cit._, ref. 58, p. 82.]
[Footnote 71: Iddings, _op. cit._, ref. 58, p. 280.]
[Footnote 72: Brögger, "Die Eruptionsfolge bei Predazzo,"
Vidensskab. Skrifter (1895), No. 7, p. 152.]
[Footnote 73: Daly, "Secondary origin of certain Granites," Am.
Journ. Sci., Ser. 4, =20= (1905), 185, with useful references to
Bayley and others.]
[Footnote 74: Hawes, "The Albany granite and its contact
phenomena," _ibid._, Ser. 3, =21= (1881), 31.]
[Footnote 75: G. A. J. Cole, "Geology of Slieve Gallion," Sci.
Trans. R. Dublin Soc., =6= (1897), 242.]
[Footnote 76: Daly, "Mechanism of igneous intrusion," Am. Journ.
Sci., Ser. 4, =15= (1903), 269, and later.]
[Footnote 77: For a recent review in favour of this theory, see
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Geol. Mag. (1911), 248 and 289.]
[Footnote 78: Darwin, "Geological Observations on volcanic islands"
(1844), chap. VI.]
[Footnote 79: Brögger, "Die Eruptivgesteine des Kristianiagebietes"
(1894 &c.).]
[Footnote 80: Harker, _op. cit._, ref. 58, chaps. XIII and XIV.]
[Footnote 81: Daly, "Origin of the alkaline rocks," Bull. Geol.
Soc. Am., =21= (1910), 108, and "Magmatic differentiation in
Hawaii," Journ. Geol., =19= (1911), 309. See, however, H. I.
Jensen, as to primitive accumulation of alkalies in the upper
layers; "The distribution of Alkaline Rocks," Proc. Linn. Soc.
N. S. W., =33= (1908), 521.]
[Footnote 82: Schwarz, "Causal Geology" (1910).]
[Footnote 83: Doelter, _op. cit._, ref. 69, pp. 71-213.]
[Footnote 84: Judd, "On Tertiary gabbros &c.," Q. Journ. Geol.
Soc., =42= (1886), 54.]
[Footnote 85: Harker, _op. cit._, ref. 58, p. 90, and Nature (Sept
1911), 319. See also Jensen, ref. 81, p. 522.]
[Footnote 86: Dewey and Flett, _op. cit._, ref. 67, p. 245.]
[Footnote 87: Steinmann, _op. cit._, ref. 68, p. 64.]
[Footnote 88: See especially W. J. Sollas, "The volcanic district
of Carlingford," Trans. R. I. Acad., =30= (1894), 502.]
[Footnote 89: A. Geikie, _op. cit._, ref. 65, =2=, 344 and fig.
348.]
[Footnote 90: Branner, "Decomposition of rocks in Brazil," Bull.
Geol. Soc. Am., =7= (1896), 255.]
[Footnote 90: Macculloch, "Description of the Western Islands of
Scotland," =1= (1819), 267.]
[Footnote 92: For general discussions of Metamorphic Rocks,
see A. Delesse, "Études sur le Métamorphisme des Roches"
(1858); Lehmann, "Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der
altkrystallinischen Schiefergesteine" (1884); A. Geikie,
"Text-book of Geology" (1903), 764-807 and 728; Van Hise, "A
Treatise on Metamorphism," U. S. Geol. Survey, Mon. 47 (1904);
U. Grubenmann, "Die krystallinen Schiefer," ed. 2 (1909); A.
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Highlands of Scotland," Mem. Geol. Surv. Scotland (1907).]
[Footnote 93: D'Aubuisson de Voisins, "Traité de Geognosie" (1819),
=1=, 298.]
[Footnote 94: Darwin, ref. 50.]
[Footnote 95: Teall, "Metamorphosis of Dolerite into
Hornblende-Schist," Q. Journ. Geol. Soc., =41= (1885), 133.]
[Footnote 96: T. G. Bonney, "The parent rock of the diamond in S.
Africa," Geol. Mag. (1899), 309.]
[Footnote 97: R. Lepsius, "Geologie von Deutschland," 2ter. Teil
(1903), 146 and 169; H. Credner, "Die Genesis des sächsischen
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[Footnote 98: Harker, "Igneous Rocks of Skye," Mem. Geol. Surv.
Scotland (1904), 115.]
[Footnote 99: Lévy, "Excursion à Aydat," Bull. Soc. géol. France
(1883), 916; "Granite de Flamanville," Bull. Carte géol. France
=5= (1893), 337.]
[Footnote 100: F. D. Adams, "Haliburton and Bancroft areas," Mem.
Geol. Surv. Canada, No. 6 (1910), 120.]
[Footnote 101: G. A. J. Cole, "Metamorphic rocks in E. Tyrone and
S. Donegal," Trans. R. I. Acad., =31= (1900), 453.]
[Footnote 102: W. B. Wright and E. B. Bailey, "Geology of
Colonsay," Mem. Geol. Surv. Scotland (1911), 28.]
[Footnote 103: Judd, "Statical and dynamical metamorphism," Geol.
Mag. (1889), 246.]
[Footnote 104: Scrope, _op. cit._, ref. 63, p. 234.]
[Footnote 105: Darwin, _op. cit._, ref. 78, chap. VII.]
[Footnote 106: See especially J. Horne and E. Greenly, "Foliated
Granites &c. in E. Sutherland," Q. Journ. Geol. Soc., =52=
(1896), 633.]
[Footnote 107: Lawson, "Geology of Rainy Lake Region," Ann. Rep.
Geol. Surv. Canada for 1887 (1888).]
[Footnote 108: Compare Chamberlin and Salisbury, "College Text-book
of Geology" (1909), 428, and other works by these authors.]
[Footnote 109: Sederholm, "Om granit och gneis i Fennoskandia"
(with English summary), Bull. Comm. géol. Finlande, No. 23
(1907), and elsewhere.]
TABLE OF STRATIGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS
Quaternary Group
Post-Pliocene and Recent
Cainozoic Group
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Mesozoic Group
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Palæozoic Group
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Gotlandian (= Silurian or Upper Silurian)
Ordovician (or Lower Silurian)
Cambrian
Pre-Cambrian Group
INDEX
(_"Ref" indicates that the name is quoted in the list of references,
pp. 162-169._)
Acid igneous rocks, 127, 132
Adams, F. D., 125, ref. 100
Africa, S., 148.
See Cape of Good Hope and Rhodesia.
Agassiz, A., 25;
L., 98
_Agents minéralisateurs_, 107
Algæ, calcareous, 25
Alkaline igneous rocks, 129
Alps, 14, 16, 23, 138, 143, 162
Ammonites, 23
Amphibole-Schist, 147
Amphibolite, 148
Anderson, T., 117
Andesite, 133
Andrussow, N., 84
Antrim, Co., 46, 135
Aragonite, deposition of, 17;
in shells, 22, 86
Armitage, 64
Ash, 88, 111
Assimilation in igneous rocks, 128
Atlantic and Pacific types of igneous rocks, 130
Auvergne, 112
Axmouth, 46
Bacteria, extraction of iron by, 61
Bagshot Heath, 73
Bailey, E. B., ref. 102
Banded structure, 120
Barrell, J., ref. 938
Barrois, C., 125
Barytes in sandstone, 62
Basalt, 132, 135
Basic igneous rocks, 127, 132
Batholites, 123
Bavaria, dolomites of, 32
Belemnites, 23
Black Sea, 17, 84
Bohemia, 134, 158
Bonney, T. G., ref. 96
Boulder-clay, 96
Bournes, 43
Brachiopods, 24
Branner, J. C., 140
Brazil, 88, 140
Breccia, 55
Brögger, W. C., 125, 128
Brongniart, A., 2
Bunsen, R. W., 127
Cader Idris, 143
Calcareous Tufa, 14, 16
Canada, 103, 150, 158
Cañons of Arizona, 47
Cape of Good Hope, 16, 41, 59, 63, 103, 121, 136, 156
Causses, 45, 48, 50
Cayeux, L., 39
Cephalopods, 23
Chalk, 20, 42
Chamberlin, T. C., 129
Chara-limestone, 19
Cheddar, 48
Chert, 40, 62
China-clay, 86
Christiania district, 125, 128
Christmas Island, 37
Clare, Co., 46
Clay, 78
Cleavage, 89
Close, Maxwell H., 98
Cole, G. A. J., 117, refs. 8, 75 and 101
Coleman, A. C., 103
Colonsay, 152
Columnar structure, 115
Composite gneiss, 122, 153
Cones, volcanic, 112, 133
Conglomerates, 70
Connemara marble, 36
Contact metamorphism, 144
Conybeare, W. D., 35
Coral-reefs, 25;
silicification in, 40
Cordier, P. L. A., 3
Cork marble, 54
Credner, H., 125, 149
Crinoidal limestone, 24
Cross, W., ref. 59
Crush-conglomerates, 28
Crystallisation in igneous rocks, 107
Dale, T. N., ref. 53
Daly, R. A., 18, 33, 125, 127, 128
Dana, J. D., 30
Darwin, C., 25, 90, 128, 145, 156
Daubrée, A., 66
D'Aubuisson de Voisins, 145
David, T. W. E., ref. 57
Dedolomitisation, 35
De la Beche, H., 18
Delesse, A., ref. 92
Derbyshire, 48, 73, 97
Desert sands, 68, 71
Dewey, H., 117, 130
Diatoms, 40
Differentiation in igneous rocks, 128
Dinaric Alps, 16, 23, 52
Diorite, 132
Doelter, C., 18, 31, 125, 130, 154
Dolerite, 132
Dolinas, 50
Dolomite, 12, 26, 29, 30
Donegal, Co., 137, 150, 153
Down, Co., 74, 137
Dreikanter, 71
Drumlins, 98, 102
Durham, dolomite of, 35
Durocher, J., 127
Dwyka Conglomerate, 103
Dykes, 110, 118, 137
Dynamo-metamorphism, 144
Eclogite, 148
Edinburgh, 143
Egypt, 22, 64, 68
Ehrenberg, C. G., 5, 20
Epidiorite, 147
Eurite, 132
Eutectic proportion, 109
Exfoliation of granite, 140
Felsitic structure, 108
Ferromagnesian minerals, 109
Fiji Is., 40
Fingal's Cave, 116
Finland, 159
Flagstones, 69
Flett, J. S., 117, 130
Flint, 38, 62;
gravels, 74
Flocculation of clay, 80
Flow-cleavage, 92
Fluidal structure, 120
Foliation, 90, 145
Foraminifera, 20
Forehammer, G., 29
Fracture-cleavage, 92
Freshwater molluscs, 23
Fuji-yama, 134
Funafuti atoll, 19, 26
Fundamental gneiss, 158
Fusulina limestone, 21
Gabbro, 132, 142
Gardiner, C., 29
Garwood, E. J., 35
Geikie, A., 117, 138, 142
Giant's Causeway, 116
Gilbert, G. K., 123
Glacial gravels, 98
Glaciers, arctic, 98
Glassy igneous rocks, 110
Glauconite in chalk, 20
Globigerina-ooze, 20
Gneiss, 122, 152, 158, 161
Gordon, M. Ogilvie, 27
Granite, 132, 138
Granodiorite, 132
Great Salt Lake, Utah, 15
Great Whin Sill, 136
Greenly, E., ref. 106
Gregory, J. W., 117
Greywacke, 58
Grund, A., 50
Guppy, H. B., 40
Halimeda, 19, 29
Hall, A. D., 81
Harker, A., 89, 107, 125, 128, 130, 149
Harlech Beds, 74
Hawaii, 106
Hawes, G. V., 126
Hebrides, 116, 135, 152, 161
Hegau, the, 135
Henry Mountains, Utah, 123
Hercegovina, karstland, 14, 52
Highlands of Scotland, 76, 143, 161
Hinde, G. J., 38, 62
Holland, P., 83, 90
Hornblende-Schist, 147
Horne, J., ref. 106
Horwood, A. B., ref. 8
Howe, J. A., 13
Hutton, J., 41, 104, 122, 158
Hydrozoa, 25
Iddings, J. P., 108, 115, 125, ref. 59
Igneous Rocks, 103
India, 140
Intermediate igneous rocks, 127, 132
Intrusion of igneous rocks, 124
Intrusive sheets, 122, 136
Irish Channel, limestone in, 17
Iron-bacteria, 61
Iron Pyrites in muds, 85
Jajce, 16
Jensen, H. T., ref. 81
Judd, J. W., 6, 42, 68, 104, 130, 154
Jukes-Browne, A., 40
Jura Mts., 46
Kalahari desert, 41, 63
Kaolin, 87
Karlsbad, 14
Karst, 49
Katzer, F., 16
Kerry, 76
Klement, C., 31
Knoll structure, 28
Laccolites, 123
Lacroix, A., 15, 125, 150
Lake, P., 76
Lamellibranchs, 22
Lamplugh, G. W., 89
Landslips, 46, 94
Lapworth, C., ref. 39
Laterisation, 64
Laurentian gneiss, 158
Lautaret Pass, 95
Lava-flows, 113
Lava-plains, 114
Lawson, A. D., 125, 158
Lehmann, J., 157
Leinster granite, 143
Leith, C. K., 89
Leith Hill, 73
Leonhard, K. von, 3
Lepsius, R., 125, ref. 97
Lessing, L., ref. 77
Lévy, M., 6, 125, 150, 156
Limestones, 12, 150;
deposited from solution, 14;
organic, 19
Linck, G., 16, 18, 61
_Lit-par-lit_ injection, 157
Lithoidal structure, 108
Lithothamnium, 20, 29
Little, O. H., ref. 8
Llanberis, 96
Loam, 82
Londonderry, Co., 135
Lossen, K. A., 157
Lower Greensand, 62, 73
Lundy Id., 139
Lyons, H. G., 63
Macculloch, J., 142
Magmas, igneous, 127
Magmatic differentiation, 128
Magnesian limestone, 35
Magnesium in organic skeletons, 29
Marble, 36, 54, 150
Marl, 83
Martel, E. A., 52
Matopo Hills, 140
Matterhorn, 143
Metamorphic Rocks, 143
Mica-Schist, 147, 161
Millepora, 25
Millersdale, 48
Minerals, 6, 8
Mojsisovics, E., 27
Monaghan, Co., 74
Mont Blanc, 138, 143
Mont Genèvre, 117
Mull, 135
Murray, J., 25
Nagelfluh, 14
New Forest, 74
Northumberland, 136
Norway, 162
Nubian Sandstone, 63
Nummulitic limestone, 21
Obsidian, 132
Old Red Sandstone, 75
Oolitic grains, 15, 17
Oolitic Limestone, 18, 40
Ophicalcite, 36
Order of crystallisation of minerals, 108
Ox Mountains, 158
Paris basin, 40, 74
Petrographical provinces, 130
Pfaff, 30, 34
Phillips, J. A., 64, 67
Phillips, W., 35
Phosphatic limestone, 36
Phosphorites du Quercy, 37
Pillow-structure, 117
Pipe-clay, 78
Pisolite, 15, 18
Planetesimal theory, 129, 130, 159
Plutonic conditions, 119
Porosity of sandstone, 66;
of clay, 79
Porphyritic structure, 119
Portland stone, 18
Portrane, ref. 11
Purbeck Marble, 54
Pyroxenite, 148
Quartz veins, 56, 65
Quartz-felsite, 132
Quartzite, 63, 76, 151, 161
Quartz-porphyry, 132
Radiolaria, 40, 118
Ravines in limestone, 48
Reade, T. M., 83, 90
Red Clay of deep seas, 88
Regional metamorphism, 157
Reynolds, S. H., 29
Rhodesia, 140
Rhyolite, 132
Richthofen, F. von, 25, 27
Ripple-marks, 69
Rock, definition of, 7
Roestone, 15
Rogers, A. W., 41, 62, 63
Rosenbusch, H., 6, ref. 58
Rothpletz, A., 27
Russell, E., 82
Russell, I., ref. 56
Samoa, 117
Sand-dunes, 62, 69
Sand-rock, 65
Sands, origin, 56;
cementing of, 60;
grains, 66
Sandstones, 56;
"crystalline," 64
Saxony, 148, 149, 158
Sea, action of on shore, 58, 87;
calcium carbonate in, 16
Searle, A. B., ref. 939
Sederholm, J. J., 125, 159
Semper, K., 25
Serpentine, 133
Schists, 145, 161
Schwarz, E. H. L., 129
Scoriæ, 112
Scoriaceous structure, 106
Scrope, G. P., 104, 116, 145, 156
Shale, 83, 96;
colours of, 85
Sharpe, D., 89
Shell-marl, 23
Silicates in igneous rocks, 109
Silicified wood, 64
Sills, igneous, 136
Skeats, E. W., 30, 31, 35
Skye, 135, 138, 142, 149
Slate, 88, 96
Smith, B., 86
Snowdon, 143
Sollas, W. J., 38, refs. 2 and 88
Sorby, H. C., 5, 64, 66, 89, 90
Southern Uplands, 74
Spherulites, 108
Spilitic lavas, 117, 131
Spitsbergen, 20, 81, 99, 101
Sponges, siliceous, 38, 62
Steinmann, G., 118, 131
Stoping process, 126
Strain-slip cleavage, 92
Sun-cracks, 69
Surrey Hills, 43, 73
Swallow-holes, 44
Sweden, gneiss of, 155
Syenite, 132
Teall, J. J. H., 117, 148
Terra rossa, 50
Terrace-structure in limestone, 46;
in basalt, 135
Thames, material in solution, 17
Torridon Sandstone, 76
Tors, 138
Trachyte, 133
Travertine, 15
Tridacna, 23
Trieste, 50
Tuff, 111
Tyrol, dolomites, 26, 31, 53
Ultrabasic igneous rocks, 132
Van Hise, C. R., 143
Vesuvius, 111
Victoria, Australia, 64
Volcanic ash, 88, 111;
cones, 112, 133;
dust, 111;
necks, 122, 134;
tuff, 111
Walther, J., 29
Weald, 73
Weathering in tropics, 64, 140
West Indies, 18, 37
Whinstone, 137
Wright, W. B., 152
Yellowstone Park, 15
Yoredale, 73
Zirkel, F. von, 6, ref. 58
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Transcriber Note
Minor typos corrected. The volume used endnotes which had several
duplicated numbers with a _bis_ extension. Those numbers were changed
to 900 + the original number. There is no anchor for Footnote 37 and 6
and 7 have more than one anchor in the text.