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INDEX. 



St. Polten, notice of the existence of tertiary for- 

 mations near, 405. 



Salamander, notice of Cuvier's description of the, 

 found at CEningen, 285. 



Saleve limestone, stated to be the equivalent of 

 the oolites of England, 183. 



Salt, different ages of deposits of, in Europe, 

 ;31(>. 



. two great deposits of, in the Alps, 31G. 



breccia, mode of working in the Eastern 



Alps, 315. 



deposits of Ischel, Aussee, Halstadt, Hall, 



and Hallein not of the same age as the salt- 

 deposit of England, 310 note, 315, 

 _ . — placed 



in the middle division of the Alpine limestone 

 series, 315. 

 — range, notice of, on the Indus, 492. 



Saltern Cove, Devon, limestone and shale altered 



and disturbed by trap, 169. 

 Salt-pans, Arran, fossils found in the upper lime- 

 stone and the lower black limestone at the, 36. 

 springs of Abtenau of the same age as the 



salt-deposit of England, 310. 

 Salzburg marble, position of the, intheUntersberg, 



317. 

 Samouelle, George, Esq., notice of fossil insects 



from tlie CEningen deposit, determined by, 286. 

 Sand, sandstone and conglomerate of Nice, de- 

 scription of the tertiary, 175. 

 Sandford Hill, section of the pits in which the 



agates are found in dolomitic strata in, 420. 

 Sandown Fort, account of fossil bones of the 



Iguanodon, found near, 425, 431. 

 Sardinia, reference to Marmora's account of, 497 



note. 

 Sandstone of the Fontaine du Temple, perforated 



l)y Lithodomi, 177. 

 Santa Egida, fossils found at, 391, 419. 

 • tertiary beds of the hills of, noticed, 



391. 

 Saugor, description of the trap of, 194, 199. 

 on the geology of a portion of the district 



of, 194. 

 Sausal, notices of the tertiary beds occupying the 



wine hills of, 388, 392. 



Scaglia of Italy, identified with chalk, 319. 



Scarabins, structure of the, 128 note. 



SchiifFau, notice of basaltic greenstone near, 309. 



■ — red sandstone with gypsum contains casts 



of bivalves at, 309. 



• dips under dark-coloured 



limestone and shale, 311. 



Scheineck, tertiary coal of, described, 386. 



fossils found in it, 386, 419. 



Scheuchzer, fossil contents of the CEningen quar- 

 ries first described by, 277. 



Schinberger- Ach, description of the basaltic dykes 

 in the gorge of the, 333. 



Schists, the oldest and most crystalline have no 

 slaty cleavage, 479. 



Schongau, section of tertiary groups near, 377. 



Schiildbach, section of strata in the quarry of, 

 394. 



Schwarzenberg, effect of trap dykes on the cal- 

 careous strata of the, 333. 



Schweiger Miihle, section of the beds near the, 

 346. 



Scoriaceous matter, conclusion drawn from the 

 great abundance of, among the volcanic rocks 

 of Lower Styria, 400. 



Scotland, deposits between the primary and oolitic 

 systems in the North of, compared with the cor- 

 responding series in England, 156. 



old conglomerates in the North of, assigned 



to the age of the old red sandstone, 156. 



Prof. Sedgwick and R. I. Murchison, Esq., 



on the structure and relations of the deposits 

 contained between the primary rocks and the 

 oolitic series in the North of, 125. 

 table of secondary formations in the North 



of, 158. 

 reference to works on the metalliferous 



deposits of, 495 note. 



Secondary deposits, account of, on the shores of 

 the Murray Firth, 144. 



dip of, on the coasts of Su- 

 therland, Ross, Nairn, Elgin and Banff, 145. 



■ two classes of chemical 



changes shown to have affected most, 463, 464. 

 two mechanical causes have 



modified most, 464. 



