INDEX. 



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New Brunswick, metamorphics of, 88. 



New Jersey, "Eozoon " &c. in hemi- 

 threne of. See Amity. 



New- York State, crystalline lime- 

 stones of, 56, 59, 88. 



Nicholson, Prof. H. Alleyne, on or- 

 ganic remains in Harris graphic 

 granite, xxxix, xli. 



Nickeliferous serpentine (Nouemite), 

 4,5. 



North Pole, present vegetation 16 

 or 17 below, 116. 



, its proximity to the 



earth's volcanic girdle, 117. 



Northern Italy, niethylosed rocks of, 

 96. 



, relation of its present 



flora to that of Grinnell Land in 

 the Miocene period, 116. 



Norway, raised shell-beaches of, 113. 



Nouemite, a nickeliferous serpentine, 

 4,5. 



0. 



Odern (Vosges), homogeneous slate 



serpentized at, 44. 

 Oligoclase. See Feldspars. 

 Olivine. See Peridote. 

 Olivinoid a peridotic mineral, 61. 

 Olivinyte a peridotic rock, 71. 

 Ontario, Eastern, " fundamental 



gneisso-syenite " of, 73, 77. 

 Ophi-calcites, Ophi-dolomites, Ophi- 



euphotides, Ophi-magnesites. See 



next reference. 

 Ophites (see Serpentine rocks) defined 



and classified, 1, 2. 



, their minerals, 1, 2, &c. 



, their structural characters, 



Introduction generally, 8-22, 56, 



64,70,79,122-126. 



of Connemara, xi, xxi, 46. 



O'Reilly, Prof. J. P., on sepiolyte of 



Vallecas, Madrid, 29. t 

 Organisms, Cambrian lime-elabora- 

 ting, 85. 



Ossipyte a peridotic rock, 2, 71. 

 Ottawa, Laurentian conglomerate 



of, 77, 87. 

 Oughterard (Connemara), crystalline 



limestone near, 42. 



P. 



Pacific Ocean, deposits in abysses of, 

 during the various geological 

 periods, 115. 



Palaeozoic metamorphics, 31, 32, 33. 



88, 89. 



rocks, fossils of earliest, 85. 



Pamir (High Asia), in relation to 



equatorial jointing, 112. 

 Paradoxides, rarity of lime in the 



sheU of this trilobite, 85. 

 Pargas (Lapland), heniithrene of, 



40, 56. 



Paris basin, sepiolyte of, 44. 

 Parker, Mr., accepts " Eozoon" 



xxii. 



Patagonia, terraces of, 113. 

 Patagonian Andes, their relation to 



the earth's volcanic girdle, 117. 

 Pebidian series, 83. 

 Pelagic deposits, their place in a 



geological rock-system, 101, 102, 



115. 



Penninite a serpentinous mineral, 5. 

 Pennsylvania, terraces of, 113. 

 Peridolytes (peridotic rocks), 2, 40, 



62, 71. 



Peridote (olivine), 7, 17, 24, 25, 37, 



40, 50, 61-71, 75, 123, 124. 

 under the polariscope, 17, 50. 



63, 64, 70, 71. 



Permian rocks, 91-95, 101-106, 118, 



fossils, 99, 103, 104. 



physical geography, 99-106. 



Perry, John B., opposes "Eozoon" 



xxviii, xxix. 

 Philippe, Mont St. See Mont St. 



Philippe. 

 Phillips, J. Arthur, on serpentinized 



killas, 2, 43. 

 Phillips, Prof. John, on "Eozoon," 



xxvii. 



, on rock-jointing, 107. 



Phlogopite, 7 ?> 24, 29. 



Phosphate of lime in Cambrian 



fossils, 85. 

 Physical geography of the Permian 



period, 99-106. 

 , its phenomena in relation 



to rock-jointing, 107-117. 

 geology, 107-117. 

 Pic d y Eridlitz (Pyrenees), calci-feld- 



spar rock of, 13. 

 Picrosmine a serpentinous mineral. 



5,6. 

 Picryte a peridotiferous rock, 2, 



fc>2. 



Pisani on leipervillite, 61. 

 Plagioclase, its presence in the 



* Challenger ' soundings, 75. 



