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INDEX 



Black Jura, see Lias. 



Blanco stage, 496, 5i8f. 



Blastoidea, 422!; Carboniferous, 422; 

 Devonian, 400 ; Palaeozoic, 367 ; Silu- 

 rian, 390. 



Blastomeryx, 516. 



Block Island clays, 164. 



Blocks, erratic or perched, 154*, 155*; 

 volcanic, 51. 



Blown sand, 125, 217. 



Blue mud, 175. 



Blue Ridge, 328, 333, 369. 



Bog iron-ore, i35t, 2i5f. 



Bombs, volcanic, 51. 



Bony Fishes, 490. 



Borneo, Pliocene of, 520. 



Bosses, 284. 



Boulder beds, Permian, 436. 



Brachiopoda, Cambrian, 373; Carbonif- 

 erous, 425; Cretaceous, 488; Devo- 

 nian, 402; Jurassic, 465; Mesozoic, 

 442; Ordovician, 382; Palaeozoic, 367 ; 

 Permian, 434 ; Silurian, 391 ; Triassic, 



450- 



Brachiospongia, 383*. 



Brachyura, Cretaceous, 488 ; Eocene, 

 503 ; Jurassic, 464. 



Brahmapootra, delta of, 141, 142. 



Brain-casts, 346. 



Branchiosaurus , 427. 



Breadfruit, fossil, 515. 



Break thrust, 253*. 



Breccia, 125, 2o6f , 217 ; coral, i68f ; vol- 

 canic, 5if, 203f. 



Brick clay, 207. 



Bridger stage, 496, 499, 506; substage, 

 496. 



Bridges, land, 353. 



Brittle Stars, Jurassic, 464 ; Ordovician, 



381. 



Brogniart, 457, 501. 



Bronzite, 20. 



Brown coal, 2i5f ; Oligocene, 507. 



Brown Jura, 457. 



Bryozoa, Carboniferous, 425 ; Ordovi- 

 cian, 382; Permian, 432; Silurian, 

 391 ; Triassic, 450. 



Buchanan stage, 529. 



Bunter Sandstone, 447. 



Buried forests, 67. 



Burlington substage, 409. 



Butte, 80, 313. 

 Butterflies, fossil, 442, 465. 

 Buzzards, fossil, 503. 



C^ENOPUS, 509. 

 Cairngorm, 15. 

 Calamites ; 420, 423. 

 Calcareous Algae, Triassic, 450. 

 Calcareous minerals, 22; shale, 208; 



sinter, 209 ; tufa, 150*, 209f . 

 Calciferous stage, 375, 376f. 

 Calcite, 22f, 266, 289, 290, 295. 

 Callipteris, 432, 433*. 

 Calymene, 381, 383*, 391. 

 Cambrian period, 355, 368. 

 Camels, fossil, 506, 509, 517, 522. 

 Ca mptosa u rus , 49 1 . 

 Canadian epoch, 355 ; series, 375. 

 Canis dingo, 539. 

 Cannel coal, 216. 

 Canons, 308. 

 Caprotina, 488, 489*. 

 Capture of streams, 326, 329*. 

 Copulas, 392*, 393. 

 Carboniferous period, 355, 4o8f. 

 Cardita, 451, 504*. 

 Carnivora, 506, 508, 516, 517. 

 Carolina ridge, 511. 

 Cassidulus, 487. 

 Castoroides, 538. 

 Casts, fossil, 346. 

 Catastrophism, doctrine of, 351. 

 Catfishes, fossil, 490. 

 Cats, fossil, 522, 538. 

 Catskill series, 397, 399. 

 Cataras, 468. 

 Caucasus, 496, 515. 

 Caulopterls, 449. 

 Cave Bear, 538. 

 Cave deposits, 131 ; earth, 132. 

 Caverns, 86, 89+-. 

 Cavies, fossil, 538. 

 Cementation, 289. 

 Cementing material of sediments, 



183. 

 Cenozoic era, 355, 494I-. 

 Centipedes, Ordovician, 382 ; Palaeozoic, 



367. 

 Central America, Miocene, 511 ; Triassic, 



444, 447 ; upheaval of, 514. 

 Cephalaspis, 403. 



