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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Frontisprece—View of Table Rock. Page. 
Map of the Iron Ore and Limestone Region of York and Spartanburg Districts... -----.------------ 
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Geological Map of South Carolina. ...-.-.-.--------------------------------------(Atend of volume.) 
PREFACE. 
INTRODUCTION. 
CHAPTER I, 
Objects of Geological Science ——Descriptive Geology.—Practical Geology.—Composition of rocks ——Un- 
stratified rocke:—Granitic and Basaltio rocks: 3 — «2 anon eseten emoa Seca oe eee ee 
CHAPTER II. 
Stratified rocks.—Stratification —Joints—Slaty cleavage.—Primary stratified rocks.—Formations.—Sys- 
tems.—Series and Periods—Gneiss—Hornblende slate—Lime rock.—Mica slate —Quartz rock.— 
Taloose slate.—Chlorite slate—Clay slate—Relation of Igneous and Metamorphic rocks.— V oleanoes 
and Harthquakes—Dip—Strike—Outcrop.—Metalliferous Veins —Faults__--.------------- cng 
CHAPTER III. 
Palxontology.—Classification —V ertebrata—Mammalia—Characters of the class—Orders.— Birds— 
Reptilia —Charaeters of the class—Fossil Reptiles —Orders —Enaliosauri—tIchthyosaurus.—Ple- 
siosaurus.—Crocodilia.—Dinosauria.—Lacertilia —P terosauria.—Chelonia.—Ophidia.—Batrachia.— 
Class Pisces. — Sub- iso Articulate, —Sub-kingdom Mollusca. — Radiata. — Infusoria—Fossil 
Plants 
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CHAPTER IV. 
Fossilliferous rocks —Classification—Palaozoie Series —Lower Silurian —Upper Silurian—Old Red — 
Carboniferous System—Coal Measures—Secondary Period —New Red.—Lias—Oolite— Wealden 
Formation. —Cretaceous System.—Tertiary Period —Eocene.—Miocene.—Pliocene—Post pene 
Suecession of Organic Remains—Mosaic Account of Creation---.....-.-------------------+- 
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