CONTENTS 



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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE ................................... 



PART I. THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS or MINERALS ............. 3 



Preliminary Remarks (3). PHYSICAL CHARACTERS (4-18) \snector 

 Lustre (4) Colour (5). Streak (6). Form (7). Structure and 

 Cleavag^( 13).^ Hardness (14). Specific Gravity (16). Malleability 



CHEMICAL CHARACTERS (18-48). Nomenclature (18). Actions of 

 Acids (20). Application of the Blowpipe (22-48). Blowpipe apparatus 

 (22). Blowpipe Flames (25-27). Fusion Trial (28). Water Test (30) 

 Treatment with cobalt nitrate (31). Roasting (31). Formation of 

 glasses on platinum wire (32). Table or Borax, Phosphor-salt, and 

 Ana* (84 ' 85) ' Reduction (36) ' Cll P ell ation (38). Blowpipe 



PART II. THE MINERALS OF CENTRAL CANADA ............... 49 



Analytical Key (50) Simplified Key (57). Systematic Arrangement 

 159, 60). Simple Substances (61). Arsenides and Sulphides (67) 

 Oxygen Compounds: Copper Oxides (SO). Iron Oxides (81) Man- 

 ganese Oxides (87). Uranium, Tungstenum, and Titanium Oxides 

 (89). Alumina and Aluminates (90). Silica and Silicates (91-199) 

 Carbonates (122). Sulphates (129). Phosphates and Areeniatee (134) 

 ^ Chlorides ( 137 )' Bodies of Assumed Organic Origin 



PART III. ROCKS AND ROCK-PRODUCING AGENCIES ............. 147 



General Classification of Rock Masses (147). Sedimentary Rocks (150- 

 166). Composition of Sedimentary Rocks (150). Formation of Sedi- 

 mentary Rocks (153). Derivation, Deposition, and Consolidation of 

 Sediments (154, 156, 157). Elevation above sea-level (158) Denu- 



IVS? n VT 1 )- Tll 1 tmg and Fracturin g (162). Production of Faults 

 (164). Metamorphism (165). 



Metamorphic or Crystalline-stratiform Rocks (167-174). 

 Massiye or Unstratified Rocks (174-191). Granites (177). Anortho- 

 (191) Uv am Greenstones (182). Obsidians and Pitchstones 



Mineral Veins (191-198). 



Classification of Rocks in accordance with their relative periods of 

 formation (199-207). Table of Geological Ages and Periods (201) 

 General Outline of the Earth's history : Archaean Age (203) Palteo 



<2 3) ; Cainozoic Age (206) ; A>ndro2oic 





