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of 



too. 



h 



in 



^ 



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Oils. 



'ells. 



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ndes, 582 

 fee, 365 



downb 



I 



f,197 



Igypt, 391 



tonesfield, 



period, 226 



176 







i£S 



of Ice- 



•a. 



.310 



,ic eruP' 



am c 



INDEX. 



059 



CAM 



Campagna di Roma, calcareous deposits of, 



404 



Carbonic acid, disengagement of free, 412 



- — supposed excess in Coal period, 227 

 Carboniferous epoch, plants of, 224 

 Carboniferous epoch, warmth of, referred to 



astronomical causes, 272 



— — how far universal, 116 

 warm climate of, 224 



. shells and corals of, 228 



Cardano on petrified shells, 34 

 Carrara marble, 143 

 Caspian Sea, level of, 111 

 Cataclysmal theory of Stoics, 13 

 Catastrophes, theories respecting, 8, 9, 32 

 Catcott, his treatise on the Delude, 62 

 Catt, Mr., on erratic block in chalk, 218 

 Causes, supposed intensity of ancient, 102 

 -supposed discordance of ancient and 

 modern, 102 



Cantley, Sir P., on artificial canals in India, 



477 

 fossils of Siwalik Hills, 201 



Celsius on sinking of Baltic, 49 



Central France, lavas eroded in, 356 



Cesalpino on organic remains, 34 



Cetacea, absence of, in secondary rocks, 162 



Chalk, floating ice in sea of, 216 



-warm climate indicated by fossils of, 213 



Chamouni, glaciers of, 369 



Charpentier on motion of glaciers, 369 



glacier moraines, 375 



Chepstow, rise of tides in, 494 



Cheshire, waste of coast of, 546 



Chesil Bank, formation of, 534 



Chilian Andes, lakes of lava in, 118 



Chili, rainless coast regions of, 332 



- volcanos of, 579 



-upheaval of coast in, 580 



~ upheaval of rock, 1822—35, 133 



Chillesford, marine arctic shells of, 197 



Chimborazo, height of, 249 



China, climate of, 239 



Chinese deluge, 10 



Cimbrian deluge, 558 



CJarke, Dr., on lava in motion, 623 



Ravage, or slaty structure, 142 



Z^e%m mted hy former geo ^ hical 



- astronomical causes of change of, 268 



- causes of change of, 233 

 -concluding remarks on, 231 

 ^ former vicissitudes of, 174 



m affeCtGd by obli( * uit y of ecliptic, 



- of Carboniferous period, 224 

 ^ -Bronze and Stone age, 176 



Devonian period, 229 



^European drift and cave deposits, 192 



Eocene strata, 204 

 --Lower Miocene strata, 202 



. "" £ olltic ailc * Triassic periods, 218 

 . "~~ £ ermi an period, 222 

 "" - Silurian period, 231 



CUR 





V u 2 



Climate of successive phases of precession, 280 



Glacial epoch, 194 



Interglacial, 195 



Pliocene period, 198 



Miocene period, 199 



— present causes affecting, 275 



- slow change of, dependent on depth of 

 sea, 265 



— warm of the Chalk, 213 

 Climates, map of distribution of land which 



might produce extreme, 266 



- extreme, caused by excentricity, 270 

 Coal, reptiles of, 229 

 Coast-ice, 383 



Cold of southern hemisphere due to seo- 



graphy, 277 



Colebrooke, Major, on crocodiles of Gan-es 

 473 uses » 



sediment of Ganges, 472 



— Mr. H. T, on age of Vedas, 6 

 Collini on igneous rocks of Rhine, 71 

 Colonna, Pabio, on fossil shells, 35 

 Cone of Vesuvius, structure of,' 620 

 Conglomerates, formation of, 49l" 

 Continents, antiquity of existing, 053 

 Conybeare, Rev. W. D., on Lister, 40 

 ~~ landslip near Axmouth, 538 



Coode Mr., on shingle moved by a storm, 535 

 <>ook, Captain, on climate of South Georgia, 



the cause of antarctic cold, 242 

 Corals of Carboniferous period, 228 

 — West Indian, proving former submergence 



of isthmus of Panama, 254 

 Cornwall, waste of coast in, 543, 545 

 Corona Borealis, outburst of a star in, 303 

 Coseguina volcano, great eruption of 583 

 Cosmogony of Egyptians, 12, 13 



Hindoos, 6 



the Koran, 28 



— not geology, 4 



Cowper, the poet, on age of earth, 81 



Crag, climate of the, 199 



Craters of elevation. See Elevation Craters. 



Crawfurd, Mr., on fossils in Ava, 43 



Cretaceous reptiles, 214 



Crocodiles of the Ganges, 473 



Croll, Mr. J., on causes of change of climate 

 in geological periods, 271 



computation of former excentricity 

 by, 292 J 



on effect of polar ice-cap, 291 



~~ "7. submergence of land by attraction 



of ice, 272, 289 



Cromer, forest bed of, 197 



Crystalline rocks, whether formerly more 



largely formed, 143 

 Camming, Rev. J. C, on Devonian boulder 



clay, 230 

 Currents affecting polar temperature, 237 



and rivers, comparative transporting 

 powers of, 570 

 — causes of, 495 



destroying an d transporting power of, 502 



