INDEX. 
685 
Marchinsk, on the Kalmiuss, section from Karakuba through 
the carboniferous series to this place, 98. 
Maria canal, near Vitegra, fossilifcrous beds of carboniferous 
limestone near, 75. 
Marina, south of Czarskoe-celo, marlstone cliffs of Devonian ace 
at, 35*. h 
Marine origin of the Russian coal-measures of the Donetz, 112. 
beds of newer miocene period covered by the brackish 
and freshwater steppe limestone, 296. 
remains found in the drift of Northern Siberia, 498. 
1 reason of their absence in Scandinavian drift, 
539. 
1 absence of, in the auriferous detritus of the 
Ural, 493. 
univalves, absence of, in the steppe limestones on the 
shores of the Caspian, Black and Azof seas, 305. 
Marls, shales and sands prevalent throughout the lower paleo- 
zoic series in Russia, 25 to 81. 
(Permian), abundance of, 137 to 182 et seq. 
■ -, (cretaceous), 268, 273, 275 et seq. 
Marlstone (Devonian) at Marina and IVitz on the Ishora,32*. 
■ — (Permian), great thicknesses of in the Permian series 
between Verkni and Nijni Troitsk, 153. 
> overlying tufaceous limestones between 
Sviask and Teheboksar on the Volga, 180. 
(Jurassic), beds of, between Pies and Kineshma, 233. 
— ■ — , concretions of, with sand, at Inkino on 
the Oka and ICoroshovo, near Moscow, 236. 
■ — — • (cretaceous), beds of, near Kaiuischine on the Volga, 
276. 
Marly deposits (Permian), their position with reference to the 
zeehsteiu, 182. 
Marshall, Mr. James, his Cumberland investigations, 2*. 
Matiuslienskaya, on the Don, cretaceous sections at, 270. 
Mayence, probable eocene date of the tertiaries in the basin of, 
282. 
Mecklenburgh, shells found here of the same age as the fossils 
of the calcaire grassier, 283. 
, Scandinavian blocks on the slopes of hills in, 522. 
Mediterranean type of secondary rocks, meaning of this ex- 
pression as employed by Von Buch, 249. 
, eastern, an extensive ancient sea of brackish 
water, of which the Caspian and Aral arc only remnants, 
297. 
, the relative level of the Caspian and other seas 
compared with its level, 322. 
Menselinsk, Orenburg, fossil fishes (Permian) found at, 218. 
Meridian direction of the Uralian rocks, 338, 467. 
Mertvi-sol (Orenburg), dislocations of Permian strata at, 183. 
Metaftamak (Bielebei), section of Permian rocks at, 151. 
, calcareous grits (Permian), with Producti occur- 
ring at, 153. 
Metalliferous productions of the Ural mountains, dates of their 
introduction, 472 to 491. 
ores chiefly on the cast Sank of the Ural, 352, 372 
et seq. 
(auriferous) rich zone near Minsk, 434. 
Metamorphic rocks of Norway of the Silurian period, 14. 
(palteozoic) of Russia. 22*. 
— of the Lappish frontier, 23*. 
of Nijny Serginsk, 357. 
of the neighbourhood of Ekaterinburg, 360. 
(limestones, palatozoic) associated with the 
magnetic iron of Nijny Tagilsk and Blagodat, 375, 379. 
of Kuslivinsk (North Ural), 380. 
on the banks of the Serebrianka, 382. 
(limestones), fossiliferous, on the river 
Kakva (North Ural), 401. 
(micaceous) on the eastern flank of the 
South Ural, 424, 
(limestones), fossiliferous beds of, on the 
Miass, 426. 
of the Urenga and Taganai mountains, 428. 
Metamorphic rocks between the zavod of Iiussinsk and Zla- 
taust, 432. 
, of those which form the crest of the Ural- 
tau, 433 et passim. 
, condition of those on the east flank of the 
Ural, 438. 
(crystalline), of the axis of the South Ural, 
454. 
, schists of the Irendyk, 454. 
■ (Silurian) of the Kraka hills, 457. 
(limestones), gold diffused through them in 
the beds south of Minsk, 488. 
(palseozoic) of the Ural, general concluding 
account of, 586. 
Metamorphism of rocks, evidence of, 357, 400, 426. 
of fossiliferous limestone of the Ural, 358, 359, 
375, 390, 399, 426 et seq. 
— — - of the Ural, resume of, 462. 
Meyendorf, Baroa A. von, his geological labours w r ith the au- 
thors (see Preface). 
his statistical map of Russia, 177. 
, his observations on black earth, 562. 
Meyendorf, Baron II. von., fossil fishes procured by, 40. 
Mezene, the extreme point on the north-east to which the car- 
boniferous limestone extends, 73. 
Mgra, river, Devonian flagstones of, with ichthyolites, 47. 
■ , pisolitie carboniferous limestones to east of, 75. 
Miascite, a mineral mass resembling granite, 437. 
Miask, an important auriferous district, 346. 
, rocks and minerals found near the zavod of, 435, 436. 
, gold alluvia near, 487. 
, gold mines to the south of, 488. 
Miatchkova on the Moskva, carboniferous limestones at, 89. 
, Jurassic shales at, 235. 
, Jurassic fossils found at, 234. 
Mica schist of the southern steppes, 91. 
, passage of into quartz rock, 433. 
.junction between granite and, at Syrostau, 434. 
Micaceous schist and quartz rock forming the crest of the Ural- 
tau, 433. 
in the Timan range, 413. 
Michael, H. I. II. the Grand Duke, procures a Bus Aurochs 
for England, 503. 
Michaelofsk zavod, west of the Ural, junction of Devonian and 
carboniferous rocks at, 128. 
Michelmia concinna, Lonsdale, description of, 611. 
■ tenuisepta, its relations with M. concinna, 611. 
Middendorff, Professor, his explorations in northern and eastern 
Siberia, 6*, 660, 661. 
Middle carboniferous rocks of Russia, section through, 97. 
tertiary rocks in Russia (miocene), 290. 
Mikulkin-mis and Kanin-nos, northern extremities of the Timan 
range, 413. 
Millstone grit and carboniferous limestone of the Tehussovava, 
126. 
occurring to the east, of Ust-koiva, 389. 
and carboniferous limestone of the Timan, 414. 
Millstones from the lower Silurian grit of Lugnos, &c., 16*. 
, Moscow, hard siliceous grit of the Jurassic rocks of 
Moscow, 239. 
-, tertiary, of Kaltchedansk (Siberia), 367. 
Mineral changes in Norway and the Ural mountains. See Me- 
tamorphic. 
structure, its identity of little importance in identi- 
fying deposits of different countries, 203. 
waters of Scrgiefsk, analysis of, 157. 
of Nijny Serginsk, 356. 
Minerals of Nazimskaya-gora (Zlataust), 428. 
• of the Miask hills enumerated, 436. 
associated with gold ores, 477. 
, simple, in the Ural, a list of, with their localities, 640. 
Miners, Russian, their condition as a class, 338. 
, their perseverance and hospitality, 346. 
