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INDEX. 



Breccia of New Ked System, 51, 54. 

 Breccia of quartz rock at Pontesbury, 285. 



at Bromsgrove Lickey, 494. 



Brecknockshire, Old Red Sandstone, with cornstone and marl, 



170, 175, 177, 185, 345. 



• , copper veins in Old Red Sandstone, 188. 



, Silurian Rocks of, 336, 341, 345. 



, Cambrian Rocks of, 342. 



, trap and altered rocks near Llanwrtyd, 343. 



, fishes in Old Red Sandstone of, 587. 



, carboniferous limestone of, 156. 



Brecon, anticlinal of Ludlow Rocks near (PI. 31. f. 6, 7, 8, 9.), 



337, 339, 610, 717. 



Fans, height of, 9. 



■ , coarse drift near to, 518. 



Bredon Hill, marlstone and Inferior Oolite, 17, 18. 



Breidden Hills, coal measures and freshwater limestone near to, 



81, 83, 96, 101. 



, trap and altered rocks, 283, 287, 290. 



, periods of eruption and line of elevation, 267, 



294, 298, 569, 570, 571. 



> — , sections across or near (PI. 32. f. 5, 6, 7.), 717. 



- , northern drift not seen to south of, 529, 530. 



Bricklehampton Bank, Worcestershire, section of detrital matter, 



556. 



Bridgenorth, Lower New Red Sandstone, 58, 59, 61, 62. 



> , carboniferous strata near to. 101, 135. 



, sections of, near to (PI. 29. 



f.ll etseq.), 714. 



— gorge of Severn, 529, 530. 



, west of, bowlders abundant, 535, 540. 



Brierley Hill, Dudley, point of trap noticed, 499. 

 , saline springs, 507. 



Bright, Mr. Benjamin Heywood, rich collection of fossils of the 



Wenlock Limestone, &c, 414. 

 , — ' — , Silurian fossils collected by, 



626, 628, 702. 

 Bright, Dr., travels in Iceland, 70. 



, on the neighbourhood of Bristol, 46, 451, 453. 



Brindgwood Chase, Ludlow Rocks and landslip of, 203, 238, 249. 



■ , fossils at, 614. 



Brine springs and rock salt of Worcestershire, 30. 



: of Cheshire, 25. 



Brinford Wood, trap of, Breiddens, 290. 

 Bristol, Dolomitic Conglomerates of, 67. 

 , break between the New Red and Carboniferous Sy- 

 stems, 96. 



, carboniferous limestone and shale of, 145, 156, 158, 



159. 



British Association, views of the author explained to, 5 et seq. 



Channel, its present form, how determined, 557. 



Brith-dir, Corndon Hills, trap rocks, 272, 276. 



British trap rocks shown to be volcanic, 73. 



Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire, troughs of, or " slashes " of culm 



(wood-cut), 376, 377. 

 Broad Sound, Pembrokeshire, Silurian and trap rocks of (PI. 35. 



f. 10.), 392, 404, 721. 

 Brockeridge Common, Gloucestershire, lower lias, 20, 21. 

 Brock Hill, Worcestershire, trap dyke in Old Red Sandstone, 



vignette, 185, 186, 420, 424 (PI. 36. f. 3.), 722. 

 Brockhurst Castle, dyke of greenstone, 259. 

 Brockmoor fault, Dudley, 500, 504. 



Broderip, Mr.W. I., his contributions to this work, 206, 586, 617. 

 Bromine detected in mineral sources, 34, 35. 



Bromlow Callows, Shelve, Salop, volcanic grits, 271. 

 Bromsgrove, New Red Sandstone of, 42, 727. 



Lickey Hills, quartz rock of, shown to be Lower 



Silurian, 493. 



Bromwich Hill, near Worcester, bones of extinct animals, 554, 

 556. 



Bromwich, West, near Birmingham, Lower New Red Sand- 

 stone and coal measures, 58, 477, 502 (PI. 37. f. 1.), 728. 



Bromyard, Old Red Sandstone, 174. 



(Err. Bromsgrove text) cornstone, 180. 



Brongniart, M. Alexandre, strata identified by fossils, 3, 7. 



, nomenclature of New Red Sand- 

 stone, 27. 



, trilobites described by him, 358, 



645 et seq. 



• , references to his Tableau des Ter- 

 rains (corals), 673 et seq. 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, on plants of the New Red System, 30, 

 44. 



, on plants of the coal, &c, 85, 104, 105, 



585. 



Bronn, M., on trilobites, 646. 



, references to his Lethsea geognostica (corals), 676 



et seq. 



, on graptolites, 694. 



Brora, lias and oolite of, compared with Salopian outlier, 25, 

 26, 150. 



Brosely, Salop, coal-field, 62, 99. 



, sections of (PI. 29.), 714. 



, limestone of Upper Silurian Rocks near to, 101. 



, patches of coal south of, 136. 



, outliers of Ludlow Rock, 242. 



Broughton Hill, Salop, probable position of Muschelkalk ?, 37, 

 Brown Clee coal-field, Salop (PI. 30. f. 6. PI. 31. f. 4.), 112, 



113, 122, 124, 715, 716. 



, basalt of, dislocations, &c, 129, 130. 



, flagstones of Old Red, 179, 180. 



, example of unproductive coal measures, 508. 



Buch, Baron Von, on craters of elevation, 427. 

 , on transition rocks and fossils, 7, 610 et seq. 



662. 



, on Dolomite, 450. 



Buckland, Rev. W., D.D., Silurian rocks in Belgium, 7. 



, on the oolitic series, 13. 



, on the cornstone of the Old Red Sand- 

 stone, 55. 



. — — , coal-basin of the Forest of Dean, 80. 



■, on the coal-fields of south-west of 



England, 133. 



— — , on the upper limestone shale, 107, 



145, 158. 



• -, contortions of limestone, 159. 



; Old Red Sandstone divided by, 170. 



. , on the rocks of High Clere and King's 



Clere, 427. 



, anticlinal of May Hill, 438. 



— , Bristol memoir referred to, 448, 450, 



451. 



, on trap of Tortworth, 457. 



■ ■, on the Lickey quartz rock, 492, 525. 



, Bridgewater Treatise, 104, 502, 646. 



, on trilobites, 646, 667. 



, diluvium described by him, 518, 530. 



— — , reliquiae diluvianse, 535, 537, 554. 



