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INDEX. 
Cairo, green sand containing shells at, 211 
Calabria, recent tertiary strata of, 22 
i effects of the earthquake of 1783, 
142,319 
Calais, ripple marks formed by the winds 
on the dunes near — see wood-cut No. 
36, 176 
Calanna, lava of Etna turned from its 
course by the hill of — see wood-cut No. 
18, 86 
■ description of the valley of, 85, 91 
Calcaire grossier, alternation of the Plastic 
clay and, 244 
— number of fossil shells of the, 245 
< abundance of cerithia in the, 245 
— alternates with fresh-water limestone 
fjat Triel, 246 
■ manner in which it was deposited, 
246 
in part destroyed when the upper 
marine strata were formed, 248 
< abundance of microscopic shells in 
the, 250 
' Palaeotherium and fresh-water shells 
in, 252 
Calcaire siliceux of the Paris basin, 246 
alternates with calcaire grossier at 
Triel, 246 
<— how formed, 246 
Calcareous grit and peperino, sections of 
— see diagrams Nos. 9 and 10, 72 
Caltagirone, blue shelly marl of, 66, 67 
■ fossil shells from — see list, Appen- 
dix II., 55 
Caltanisetta, dip of the tertiary strata at, 
74 
— — list of fossil shells from, — Appen- 
dix 11., 54 
Cambridgeshire, great line of chalk escarp- 
ment from, to Dorsetshire, 315 
Campagna di Roma, age of the volcanic 
rocks of the, 183 
Campania, tertiary formation of, 118 
■ comparison of recorded changes in, 
with those commemorated by geological 
monuments, 118 
■ age of the volcanic and associated 
rocks of, 126 
■ external configuration of the country 
how caused, 127 
. affords no signs of diluvial waves, 
| 128 
Canadian lakes, changes which would take 
place in the Gulf of St. Lawrence if 
they were filled up, 28 
Cant a), fresh-water formations of, 236 
— fresh-water limestone and flints re- 
sembling chalk in the, 237 
proofs of the gradual deposition of 
marl in the, 239 
Cape Wrath, granite veins of — see wood- 
cuts Nos. 85 and 86, 354 
Capitol, hill of the, a deposit of calcareous 
tufa found on the, 138 
Capo Santa Croce, shelly limestone resting 
on lava at, 68 
Capra, flowing of the lavas of 1811 and 
1819 round the rock of — see wood-cut 
No. 21, 92 
traversed by dikes, 92 
Carboniferous series, 326 
Carcare, tertiary strata of — see wood-cut 
No. 55, 207, 222 
fossil shells of, 211 
Cardona, rock salt of, its relative age, 333 
Casamicciol, shells found in stratified luff 
at, 126 
Caspian Sea, level of the, 29, 271 
Castell de Stolles, ravine excavated in lava 
opposite the, 189 
Castell Follitt, extent of the lava stream of 
— see map, wood-cut No. 43, 184 
section of lava cut through by river 
at— see wood-cut No. 46, 189, 190 
Castello d'Aci, 81 
Castrogiovanni, section of theVal di Noto 
series at — see diagram No. 5, 64 
hill of, its height, 66 
capped by the Val di Noto lime- 
stone, 66 
fossil fish found in gypseous marls 
at, 67 
■ list of fossil shells from — Appendix 
II., 55 
Castelgomberto, fossil shells of — see Table, 
Appendix I. 
Catalonia, volcanic district of, 183 
extent of the volcanic region of — see 
map, wood-cut No. 43, 184 
volcanic cones and lavas of — (see 
Frontispiece), 185 
ravines, excavated through lava in. 
188, 189 
age of the volcanos of, 191 
> superposition of rocks in the vol- 
canic district of — see wood-cut No. 47, 
192 
Catania, volcanic conglomerates forming 
on the beach at, 73 
plain of, 75, 76 
marine formation near, 78 
Catastrophes, remarks on theories respect- 
ing, 6, 33 
Catcliff, Little, section of part of, showing 
the inclination of the layers in opposite 
directions — see wood-cut No. 33, 175 
Cavalaccio, Monte, shells procured from 
the tuffs of, 79 
Caves in Sicily, osseous breccias found in, 
139' 
perforated in the interior by litho- 
domi, 140, 141 
Australian, bones of marsupial ani- 
mals in, 143 
