INDEX. 



607 



Monopteria loogispina, ii, 616 

 Monroe formation, iii, 553, 554 

 Montana fauna, iii, 190 



formation, iii, 70, 142, 151, 

 153-155, 157, 166, 568, 

 57o 

 section of strata in, iii, 568 

 Monterey sandstone, iii, 577 

 series, iii, 68, 262, 263, 316 

 shale, iii, 548 

 Montezuma schist, ii, 152 

 Monticulipora, ii, 357 



arborea, ii, 358 

 Monzonite, i, 471 

 Moon, i, 3, 598 

 Moraine plains, iii, 372 

 Moraines, dump, i, 301 

 ground, i, 302; iii, 360 

 lateral, i, 266, 302 

 lodge, i, 301 

 medial, i, 266, 297 

 molluscan shells in, i, 297 

 push, i, 301 

 recessional, iii, 367 

 surface, i, 266 



terminal, i, 266, 301 ; iii, 362 

 types, i, 301 

 Mb'ricke, W., (and Steinman,) 



cited, iii, 281 

 Morita formation, iii, 575 

 Morrison formation, iii, 68, 97, 

 119, 206, 565, 566 (see 

 also Como) 

 origin of, iii, 120 

 position of, iii, 66 

 Mortar beds, iii, 300 

 Mosasaurians, Cretaceous, iii, 



180 

 Moseley, H., cited, i, 322 

 Moselle River intrenchment me- 

 anders, i, 164 

 Moss, cited, iii, 440 

 Mosses, geologic contributions 



of, i, 656 

 Moulton, F. R., cited, i, 565; 

 ii, 4, 10, n, 17, 38, 54. 

 57, 62, 63, 65, 72 

 Mount Erebus, i, 603 

 Hecla, ii, 603 

 Holly formation, ii, 213 

 Shasta, i, 611 

 Terror, i, 603 



Toby conglomerate, iii, 546 

 Mountain-forming movements, 



i. 542 

 Mountain glaciation of glacial 



period, iii, 333 

 Mountain limestone, ii, 558 

 Mountains, serration of, i, 48, 



5o 

 Movements, crustal. at close of 

 Cretaceous, iii, 162 

 Europe, Miocene, iii, 280 

 Movements of earth's body, i, 

 526-589 

 causes of, i, 551-557 

 continent-forming, i, 544 

 distribution in time, i, 545 

 epeirogenic, i, 537 

 folding, i, 545 



Movements of earth's body, 

 minute and rapid, i, 526 



mountain-forming, i, 542 



orogenic, i, 537 

 Pliocene, iii, 316 



periodic, i, 542 



plateau-forming, i, 543 



relation of vertical and hori- 

 zontal, i, 545 



slow and massive, i, 537 

 Movements of glaciers, i, 259, 

 261,299, 313-323 



of sea-water, i, 334~342 

 causes of, i, 334~339 

 Mud-cracks, i, 489 

 Mud-flows, volcanic, i, 610 

 Mud-rain, i, 25 

 Mudstone, i, 471 

 Muensteroceras oweni, ii, 520 

 Mugge, O., cited, i, 313, 322, 



323 

 Muir glacier, i, 259 

 Mulinia, iii, 295 

 Mural limestone, iii, 575 

 Murchison, R. I., cited, ii, 340 

 Murchisonia, Onondagan, ii, 



466 

 Murex, iii, 294 

 Murray, A., cited, iii, 336 

 Murray. Sir John, cited, i, 11, 



215, 325, 326, 369, 604, 655 

 Murray shale, iii, 550 

 Muschelkalk formation, iii, 32 

 Muscovite, i, 400, 464 

 Musk-ox, Pleistocene, iii, 498 

 Mustela, iii, 289 

 Mustelidae, iii, 237 

 Mya, iii, 403 



Myacites humboldtensis, iii, 53 

 Myalina recurvirosiris, ii, 616 

 Mylodon, iii, 322, 498 

 Myophoria alta, iii, 53 

 Myrica, iii, 133, 173 



longa, iii, 174 

 Myriopods, Carboniferous, ii, 611 



Devonian, ii, 495 

 Myrtle formation, iii, 161, 202 

 Mytiloconcha, iii, 295 

 Mytilus, iii, 91 



formation, iii, 310 



whitei, iii, 92, 93 



Naco limestone, iii, 575 

 Nanjemoy formation, iii, 199 

 Nanosaurus, iii, 99 

 Nansen, F., cited, iii, 357, 442, 



522 

 Naosaurus, ii, 649 

 Naphtha, Pliocene, iii, 318 

 Narrcgansett Bay coal, ii, 549 

 Narrows, i, 141 

 Nashville dome, ii, 335 

 Nassa marylandica, iii, 294 

 Natchez formation, iii, 386 

 Nathorst, A., cited, ii, 298 

 Naticidae, iii, 134 

 Naticopsis altonensis, ii, 616 

 Natural bridges, i, 153, 231 



of Virginia, i, 156 



on coasts, i, 351 



Natural gases, i, 646 

 Natural levees (see Levees) 

 Natural oils, i, 646 

 Nautiloids, Triassic, iii, 56 

 Nautilus, iii, 294 



family, Hamilton, ii, 473 

 Mississippian, ii, 525 

 Onondagan, ii, 466 



meekanum, iii, 189 

 Navarro formation, iii, 142, 



143 

 Neanderthal man, iii, 326 

 Nebo sandstone, iii, 550 

 Nebraska, section of strata in, 

 iii, 564 



volcanic dust in, i, 23 

 Nebulae, aggregate molecular, ii, 

 42 



characteristics of, ii, 41 



existing, ii, 12 



free-molecular, ii, 41 



luminescence of, ii, 59 



origin of, ii, 21 



planetesimal, ii, 48 



spiral form dominant, ii, 43 

 Nebular hypothesis, ii, 4 



difficulties of, ii, 84, 86 



earth's history under, ii, 90 



modification of, ii, 88 

 Negaunee formation, ii, 150, 176. 



179, 180 

 Neihart quartzite, iii, 569 

 Neocomian stage, iii, 128 

 Neolithic age, iii, 502 

 Neoliths, iii, 503 

 Neontaric series, ii, 370 

 Neotremata, ii, 356 

 Nephelinite, i, 471 

 Nephelite, i, 400, 464 

 Neptunella intertextus, iii, 189 

 Nerinea, iii, 91, 134 

 Nerium, iii, 173 

 Nervita, iii, 294 

 Neudeckian epoch, iii, 421 

 Neumayr, M., cited, ii, 444, 446; 

 iii, 66, 75, 78, 79, 92, 94, 

 107, 129, 172, 220, 221 

 Neumayria, iii, 92 



henryi, iii, 93 

 Neuropter'.s, ii, 595, 602 



angustifolia, ii, 593 



auricula ta, ii, 593 



decipiens, ii, 594 



valida, ii, 645 



vermicularis, ii, 593 

 Nevada, Eureka district, section 



of strata in, iii, 576 

 Nevada limestone, iii, 576 

 Nevadite, i, 471 

 Neve', i, 246 

 Neverita, iii, 294 

 New Albany shale, iii, 556 

 New Brunswick, Ordovician of, 



ii, 336 

 New Red Sandstone, ii, 628; iii, 



34 

 New Richmond sandstone, iii, 



559 

 New River, i, 168 

 New Stone Age, iii, 502 



