TABLE OF CONTENTS 
I.— REPORT ON THE FIELD-GEOLOGY OF THE REGION EXPLORED DURING THE 
CHAPTER 
I. 
‘DISCOVERY’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-4. 
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By H. T. Ferrar, M.A., F.G.S., Geologist to the Expedition. 
Islands, chiefly off the coast of South Victoria Land 
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1 
II. 
The Ross Archipelago ........ 
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8 
III. 
The Mainland of South Victoria Land ..... 
17 
IV. 
The Gneissic Rocks and Crystalline Limestone 
25 
V. 
The Granites .......... 
32 
VI. 
The Beacon Sandstone Formation ...... 
39 
Appendix to Chapter VI. — Report on the Plant-remains from 
Sandstone. By E. A.. Newell Arber, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. . 
the Beacon 
48 
VII. 
The Dolerites .......... 
49 
VIII. 
The Sea-ice and the Shore-ice ....... 
55 
IX. 
The Land-ice .......... 
63 
X. 
The Land-ice — continued ........ 
76 
XI. 
Denudation 
87 
Appendix to the Report on the Field-geology. — Notes relative to Macquarie 
and Auckland Islands, outside the Antarctic Circle .... 
95 
Summary ............. 
98 
II.— REPORT ON THE ROCK-SPECIMENS COLLECTED DURING THE 
‘DISCOVERY’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-4. 
By G. T. Prior, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., Assistant in the Mineral Department, British Museum. 
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INTRODUCTORY ............... 101 
CHAPTER . 
I. Volcanic Rocks 102 
Basalts 102 
Ivenytes ............. 110 
Phonolitic Trachytes and Phonolites 113 
Chemical Relations of the Volcanic Rocks 119 
II. The Basement-rocks of South Victoria Land 124 
Crystalline Limestone and Gneiss . . . . . . . .124 
Granites and Diorites .......... 125 
III. Dyke-Rocks (Lamprophyres, *etc.) ......... 129 
Camptonites ............ 129 
Kersantites ............ 130 
Banakites . . . . . . . . . . . . .131 
IV. The Beacon Sandstone and other Sedimentary Rocks 134 
V. The Dolerites . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 
Summary ............... 139 
III.— INDEX TO THE VOLUME. 
