INDEX. 



493 



Dykes, basaltic, in the Dukhun described, 418. 



, a remarkable one at Hurreechun- 



durghur, 418. 

 — — — , of the Siebengebirge, 445. 



Earthquake around Chichester, in 1834. 155, 

 note. 



Eden, account of cleft, called Span of, 385. 



, description of a longitudinal section from 



Penigent to the plains of the, 84. 



, Professor Sedgwick on the new red sand- 

 stone series in the basin of the, 383, et seq. 



— —, sterile sandstone in valley of, the parallel 

 of forest sand of Nottinghamshire, 387. 



Elevation, effects and phenomena of, in the 

 neighbourhood of Weymouth, 32 — 34. 



of the northern carboniferous chain, 



dislocations produced by, 59. 



marked by a system 



of longitudinal faults, 59. 



level among the strata during, 63. 

 ■ , fractures produced 



by, sometimes inclined to each other, 63. 

 probably produced 



by protrusion of the Cheviot porphyries, the 

 Charnwood syenite, &c., acted on by volcanic 

 agents, 03, 64. 

 produced by vio- 



lent action, and of short duration, 64. 



Elephants' teeth, occurrence of, in the diluvium 

 of Dorsetshire, 44. 



Elie de Beaumont, his theory of epochs of ele- 

 vation supported by position of the older for- 

 mations in British Isles, 56, 65. 



, coal-fields of 



Bristol Channel, exceptions to, 57. 



Endogenites erosa, found in the Hastings-sand 

 near Hastings and St. Leonard's, 167, 168. 



I , its externalforms, (Plates XIX. 



and XX.,) 172; internal structure, 175. 



England, general comparison of the red sandstone 

 series of, with that of Scotland, 402. 



, probable appearance of, if laid dry im- 

 mediately after the carboniferous period, 56. 



England, South-east of, Dr. Fitton on the strata 



between the chalk and Oxford oolite in, 103, 



et seq. 

 , succession of geological 



events in, 45, S20. 

 Eruptions, volcanic, of the Siebengebirge, 468 ; 



of the Roderberg, ib. 

 Everest, Rev. Robert, on trap between Calcutta 



and Ghazipoor, referred to, 429. 

 Exeter conglomerate may be equivalent of upper 



part of lower red sandstone of Yorkshire,403. 

 Exogyra (Gryphaea) virgula, found in the Kim- 



meridge-clay of Buckinghamshire, 273. 



Farlton Knot, dislocation near, not leading branch 



of Craven fault, 60. 

 Farnham, Surrey, section near, 144. 

 Faults, account of, on coast between Parton and 



St. Bees Head, 893, et seq. 

 at Bothenhampton and Bridport Harbour, 



-, great changes of 40. 



and contortions in the Weymouth di- 

 strict, 35. 



— — at Osmington and Ringstead Bay, 39. 

 , notice of, respecting the band of lime- 



stone and calcareous slate of Cumberland, 50, 

 et seq. 

 '— generally marked 



by valleys, 52. 



Felspar, glassy, resembling Cleavelandite, in amy- 

 gdaloid, in the Dukhun, 424. 



Fenny Stratford, section through, 292. 



Firestone, (Upper green-sand,) section of, near 

 Godstone, 137. 



near Merstham, 140. 



at Reigate, 137. 



First millstone grit, description of, between Peni- 

 gent and Kirkby Stephen, 81. 



Fishes, fossil, of the Gault, 203, 259. 



— Weald clay, 180, 200. 



examined by 



M. Agassiz, 180. 



298. 



Hastings sand, 180, 206. 

 Purbeck strata, 230, 260, 



3 s 2 



