INDEX. 
693 
Satkinsk, near Zlatafist (Ural), zavod of, 429. 
, lower Silurian rocks between Silkia and, 432. 
Saurians, remains of, in the Permian rocks, 154. 
> those found in the Russian Permian strata not in the 
same geological position as those of Europe, 213. 
, vertebra of, found on the Sisola and Visinga, 417. 
, in the Jurassic rocks of Russia, 246, 417. ‘ 
Saussure, M. de, his view of the cause of the movement of 
glaciers, 503, 509. 
Saxony, cretaceous system of, 261. 
Scandinavia, importance of a geological survey of, before com- 
pleting an account of the geology of Russia, xiii. 
, Silurian rocks of, 10 H sag. 
" » sizoic rocks of, meaning of the term, 10*. 
. relations of the Silurian fossils of, 19. 
r occasional resemblance of the rocks of, to those of 
the Tinian range, 413. 
■ drift and erratic blocks from, spread over Germany 
and Russia, 507 et seq. 
. excentric distribution of the drift from, 527, 548. 
- , probability that icebergs may formerly have floated 
from the highest regions of this countiy and Lapland, 537. 
_ > difficulty of explaining the surface phamomena of, 
542. 
, British analogies to pliamomena in, 549. 
' " > views of authors who have written on the subject 
of transported drift in that country, 555. 
Scar limestone, its representative in South Russia, 95. 
, its resemblance to the carboniferous limestones 
on the west flank of the Ural, 125. 
Schaalstein, rocks at Mamniskava, on the Issetz and on the 
Kakva, resembling that rock in Germany, 363, 401. 
— , copper ore between this rock and Silurian lime- 
stones, 373. 
, a rock resembling this on the eastern side of the 
Ural, between that range and Troitsk, 441, 442. 
Sehastozerskaya, shelly sea-bottoms observed on the banks of 
the Dwina, opposite, 327. 
Schists (Silurian) of Spain, 4*; of Sweden, 15*. 
of Russia, 31, 34. &c. 
(Devonian) of the Issetz. 364. 
(carboniferous), 111, 451 et seq. 
of the Bielava river, their picturesque beauty, 458. 
(metumorphie) of the Ural, 356,359, 360, 391, 408, 433, 
4 16, 453, 455. See Jaspers. 
of the Timan range, 413, 416. 
Schlotheim, M., his list of species of fossils in the zechstein of 
Germany, 214. 
Schultz, M., his services to the authors, 362. 
Scotland, identity of the old red sandstone of, with the grey- 
wacke and old limestone of Devonshire and the Rhenish 
Provinces, ix., 1. 
, identity of the fishes from the old red sandstone of 
with those from the Russian Devonian strata, 66. 
Scotovaitova (Donetz), section of carboniferous rocks at, 104. 
Scratched and polished rocks no proof of glacial action exclu- 
sively, 552. 
Seams of coal, number of, worked in the mines of the Donetz 
coal-field, 96, 101, 105 to 111. 
Secondary rocks of Russia, 8, 229 to 280. 
Sedgwick, Prof., his labours in the establishment of palatozoic 
classification, vii., 2. 
, his subdivisions and illustration of the mag- 
nesian limestone scries in England, 201. 
, his list of fossils of the English magnesian 
limestone, 215. 
, his researches with Mr. Murchison in England, 
the Rhenish provinces, the Alps, tec., 1*, 2, 426. 
Sedimentary origin of the North Ural, 403, 438. 
Sefstrom, Prof,, liis theory of the northern drift, 508. 
, his observations on the Swedish osar, 543. 
, his theory of the transport of boulders, 555. 
Selburg (Livonia), castle of, Devonian strata exhibited at, 51. 
Seleuk, stream near Sterlitamak, section of Permian strata, 150. 
Semipolatnoi, on the Utva, range of the chalk reaches to, 272. 
Serbaifsk (Cossatchi-datehi), Devonian (?) schistose rocks and 
carboniferous limestone near this hill, 439. 
Serebrianka river (North Ural), Devonian limestone on the, 
381 et seq. 
• , relations of Silurian and Devonian strata on the, 
381. 
Serebriansk, structure of the country between this zavod and 
the Tchussovaya, 383. 
Sergiefsk, magnesian and gypseous cliffs near the baths of, 157. 
(see Nijny Sergiefsk, North Ural), dolomites in the 
line of the igneous eruption from this place to Bissersk, 
38o. 
Serpentine, bosses of, at Ekaterinburg, 361. (For occurrence 
of in the Ural mountains, see Map, PI. VII.) 
, this rock with hornblendic and chloritic schists 
abounds in the auriferous zone, 434, 435. 
, associated with diallage in Listvanava-gora (South 
Ural), 435. 
Serpuchof, or Serpukhof, on the Oka, sequence of the carboni- 
ferous rocks at, 80 ; fossils of, 80, 81. 
Scrpula omphatotes , the occurrence of this fossil in the Devo- 
nian rocks of Russia, 43 et ser/. 
Sevastopol, M, Huot’s conclusions from the tertiary fossils found 
at this place not agreed to by the authors, 303. 
Shablish, brackish lake of, east of the Ural, 422. 
Shaft, section of the coal workings of Lissitchia-Balka, 111. 
Shale (Silurian) of Norway, 12, 12*, 18. 
, blue, found at St. Petersburg, 26. 
, beds of, overlying the upper limestone of the carbonife- 
rous series of Russia, 98. 
, red argilluecous, called ‘ Ubcr than,’ of the Permian 
series, 153. 
, certain rocks of this kind characteristic of the secondary 
rocks of Rnssia, 230. 
, black, between Pies and Kineshma, 233. 
, pyritous, characteristic of the Jurassic rocks of Russia, 
244. 
(Jurassic), in the cliffs of Svsran, 246. 
— , between the arctic Ural and the Timan, 417. 
Sliarpe, Mr. D„ bis investigations in Cumberland and 'West- 
moreland, 2*. 
Shelly sands (mioeene) of the Upper Vistula, 291. 
sea-bottoms in Northern Russia, 327. 
Shidrova, on the Dwina, limestone (Permian) exposed at, 174. 
— , a Cyrtoeeras found there, 210. 
Sluiran, on the Kama, cream-coloured and spotted marly lime- 
stone (Permian) of, with Produclm Cancrini, 162. 
Siass river, Ungulite grit reposing on blue shale near, 27*. 
, geological succession on the, 30. 
Siberia, flat country of, seen from Mount Sugomac, lithographic 
sketch of, 425, 653. 
, granitic rocks of, posterior to the palaeozoic, 352. 
, fossiliferous rocks seen in, 363. 
, presence of palauizoie rocks in the plateaux of, 423. 
, each ridge in the steppes of, a miniature representation 
of the Ural chain, 413. 
- — , Ural mountains formed the western edge of the old 
continent of, 472 et seq., 521, 555. 
- — - — , abundance of the remains of large mammals in, 494. 
, causes of the refrigeration of, 497. 
, entire absence of erratic blocks in, and in the Ural 
mountains, 554. 
, difficulty of accounting for the tchornozem or black 
earth found in, 563. 
Siliceous matter in the lower carboniferous series of Russia, 72, 
grits from the upper member of the Jurassic rocks 
around Moscow, 235, 238 et seq. 
beds containing J urassic fossils, 247. 
and argillaceous masses representing the cretaceous 
rocks in the governments of Kharkof and Kursk, 267. 
