INDEX. 



89 



Cavo delle Neve, hollow in Ischia called 

 the, 127 



- ancient sea-beach seen near, 127 

 Cellent, lava current of see map, wood- 

 cut, No 43, 184 



section above the bridge of, see 



wood-cut No. 45, 188 



Central France, volcanic rocks of, 224, 

 257 



- fresh-water, formations of, 225 



. analogy of the tertiary deposits 



of, to those of the Paris basin, 241, 

 : 247 



- valleys of, how formed, 319 



Cer, valley of the, sections of foliated 



marls in the, 239 

 Ceret and Boulon, dip of the tertiary strata 



between, 170 

 Cerithia, abundance of in the calcaire gros- 



sier, 245 

 Chabriol, M., on the fossil mammalia of 



Mont Perrier, 218 

 Chadrat, pisolitic limestone of, 232 

 Chalk, protruded masses of in the crag 



strata see wood-cuts Nos. 41 and 42, 



179, 180 

 English tertiary strata, conformable 



to the, 282 



deep indentations filled with sand, 



&c., on its surface, 282 



tertiary outliers on, 283 



fissure in the, filled with sand near 



Lewes, 283 

 and upper green sand of the Weald 



valley, 286 



escarpments of the Weald valley, 



once sea-cliffs see wood-cuts Nos. 65 

 and 66,289,290,291 



- . why no ruins of, on the central dis- 

 trict of the Weald, 295 



of the North and South Downs, its 



former continuity, 303 

 . the alternative of the hypothesis 



that it was once continuous considered, 



304 



- valleys and furrows in the, how 

 caused, 311 



. cliffs, rapid waste of on Sussex 



coast, 311 

 , greatest elevation attained by it in 



England, 314 

 great line of escarpment formed by 



the, through the central parts of England, 



315 

 . nearly all the land in Europe has 



emerged since the deposition of the, 



330 



has been elevated at successive pe- 

 riods, 331 

 . converted into marble by trap dike 



in Antrim, 369 

 Chalk-flints, analysis of, 238 



Chamalieres, near Clermont, section at. 



228 

 Chambon, lake of, formed by the lava of 



the Puy de Tartaret, 264 

 Chamouni, glaciers of, 150 

 Champheix, tertiary red marls of, 229 

 Champoleon in the Alps, strata altered 



near, 371 

 Champradelle, section of vertical marls at, 



see wood-cut No. 57, 231 

 Chili, Newer Pliocene marine strata at 



great heights in, 130 

 Christie, Dr. T., his account of the Cave 



of San Giro, 140 

 on caverns in Mount Beliemi, Sicily, 



Cirque of Gavarnie, in the Pyrenees, 88 



Cisterna on Etna, formed by a subsidence 

 in 1792,96,129 



Classification of tertiary formations in chro- 

 nological order, 45 



Clay-slate, lamination of, in the Pyrenees 

 see wood-cut No. 89, 366 



may be altered into shale, 373 - " 



convertible into hornblende schist, 



373 



Clermont, section of littoral deposits near, 



228 

 section of vertical marls near see 



wood-cut No. 57, 231 



alternations of volcanic tuff and 



fresh-water limestone near, 258 



Clift, Mr., on the bones of animals from 

 Australian caves, 144 



Climate, effects of changes of, on species, 

 44 



Coal reduced^to cinder by trap dike, 370 



Colle, fresh-water formation of, 137 



fossil shells of living species in the, 



138 



Comb Hurst, hills of, 279 



C6me, lava current of, 186 



Conception Bay, fossil shells of recent spe- 

 cies found at great heights in, 130. 



Conglomerate, tertiary, of Nice, 167 



- now formed by the rivers near Nice, 

 168,169 



time required for the formation of 



great beds of, 170 



ConglomerateSjYolcanic, of the Val di Noto, 

 73 



now forming on the shores of Ca- 

 tania and Ischia, 73 



Contemporaneous origin of Rocks, how 



determined, 37 



Contemporaneous, remarks on the term, 52 

 Continents, position of former, 328, 330 

 Contortions in the Newer Pliocene strata 



in the Isle of Cyclops see wood-cut 



No. 15, 80 

 Conybeare, Rev. W. D., on the English 



crag, 19 



