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Show S6 INDEX. Anticlinal lines, how far those formed at the same time are parallel, 349 Antilles, recent shells imbedded in limestone in the, 133 Antrim, chalk in, converted into marble by trap-dike, 369 --- altet·etl coal and lias in, 369 Apennines, tertiary strata at the foot of the, 155 Apo!linaris does not mention the volcanos in his description of Auvergne, 269 Areas of sedimentary deposition, shifting of the, 26 Argillaceous strata, change caused by a dike of. lava in, 70 Aruo, river, yellow sand like the Subapen-nines deposited by the, 161 Arun, transverse valley of the, 298, 299 Asia, western, great cavity in, 29, 270 Astroni, crater of, 187 Atlantis of Plato, 330 Atrio del Cavallo, dikes in the, 124 Aurillac, fresh-water formation of, 236 --- silex abundant in the fresh-water strata of, 237 ---resemblance of the fresh-water lime-stone and flints to the chalk, 237 ----proofs of the gradual deposition of the fresh-water marls of, 239 Australian breccias, bones of marsupial animals in, 143 Auvergne, appearance of some of the lavas of, 94 --position of the Miocene alluviums of -see wood-cut No. 54, 217 --extinct quadrupeds in the alluviums of, 218 -- age of the volcanic rocks of, 224 --lacustrine deposits of, 226 -- map of the lacustrine basins and volcanic rocks of-see wood-cut No. 56, 226 -- tertiary red marl and sandstone of, like new ret! sandstone, 229, 333 -- indusia\ limestone of, 232 --dip of the tertiary strata of, 233, 235 -- arrangement anti origin of the fresh-water formation of, 233 -- analogy of the tertiary deposits of, to those of the Paris basin, 241 -- geographical connexion of the Paris basin and, 241 -- probably once connected witn the Paris basin by a chain of lakes, 241 -- volcanic rocks of, 257 -- igneous rocks associated with the . lacustrine strata of, 258 --volcanic breccias of, how formed, 259 -- minor volcanos of, 260, 263 -- long snccession of eruptions in, 260 -- ravines excavated through lava in, 264 Auvergne, lavas resting on alluviums of different ages in-see wood-cut No. 61, 266 -- age of the volcanos of, 268, 269 Aventine, Mount, a deposit of calcareous tufa on, 138 Bagneux, alternation of plastic clay and calcaire grossier at, 244 Bagshot sand, its composition, &c., 280 Banos del Pujio, elevated sea-cliff neat·, 131 Baobab tree, its size, probable age, &c., 99, 272 Baraque, la Petite, section of vertical marls in a ravine near-see wood·cut No. 57, 231 Barcelona, height of the marine tertiary strata of, 193 Barcombe, section from the north escarpment of the South Downs to-see woodcut No. 71, 296 Barzone, gypsum found in the Subapennine marls near, 159 Basalt, theory of the aqueous origin of, 4 Basalts of the Bay of Trezza, Paterno, &c., their relative age, 82 Basterot, M. de, on the fossil shells of Bordeaux and Dax, 20, 206 Battoch, Mount, granite veins of, 357 Bay of Trezza, sub-Etnean formations exposed in the, 78 -- proofs of ancient submarine erup· tions in the, 78 Bayonne, age of the tertiary strata near, 343 -- age of the newe.>t secondary strata near, 343 Bawdesey, inclination of the crag strata neat·, 174 Beauchamp, remains of a palreotherium and fresh-water shells in calcaire grossier at, 252 Beachy Head, termination of the chalk escarpment at, 291 -- thickness of the upper green-sand at, 292 Beginning of things, supposed proofs of, 383 Belbet, section of white limestone in the quarry of, 237 Belgium, tertiary formations of, 276 -- fossil shells from-see table, Ap· pendix I. Beliemi, Mount, caves in, 143 Beudant, M., on the volcanic rocks of Hungary, 222 Bingen, gorge of, 152 Binstead, mammiferous remains found in the quarries of, 281,317 Blaye, limestone of, 208 --its position-see wood-cut No. 52, 209 INDEX. 81 Blue marl with shells of the Val di Noto 67 ' Boblaye, M., on the successive elevations of the Morea, 113, 132 -- on the formation of osseous breccias in the Morea, 144 --on the tertiary' strata of the-Morea 170 - • ' Bolos, Don Francisco, on the volcanos of Olot, in Catalonia, 187, 191, 193 --on the destruction of Olot by earthquake, in 1421, 191 Bonelli, Signor, on the fossil shells of Savona, 166 -- on the fossil shells of the Superga 211 , Bonn, blocks of quartz containing casts of fresh-water shells found near, 199 -- remains of frogs from the brown coal formation in the museum at, 200 Bordeaux, tertiary strata of, 20, 206 -- Eocene strata in the basin of, 208 -- fossil shells of- see table, Ap-pendix I. Bormida, tertiary strata of the valley of the, 211 Bosque de Tosca, a mound of lava near Olot, 186 Botley Hill, height of, 288 Boue, M., on the loess of the vallt)y of the Rhine, 151 -- on the value of zoological characters in determining the chronological relations of strata, 208 --term molasse vaguely employed by, 212 --on the tertiary formations of Hungary and Transylvania, 213 -- on the fossil shells of Hungary, 223 -- on the volcanic rocks of Transylvauia, 223 -- his objections to the theory of M. Elie de Beaumont, 346, 347 Bouillet, M., on the extinct quadrupeds of Mont Perrier, 218 -- on alluviums of different ages in Auvergne, 267 Boulade, position of the alluviums of the -see wood-cut No. 54, 217 Boulon and Ceret, dip of the tertiary strata between, 170 Bourbon, Isle of, a volcanic eruption every two years in the, 363 Bowdich, Mr., fossil shells of recent species brought from Madeira by, 134 Braganza river, brown clay deposited by the, 161 Breaks in the series of superimposed formations, causes of, 26, 33 Breccias in the Val del Hove, 93 --Psseop.s1 in Sicili~n c~ves, 139 Breccias, in .Australian caves, 143 M4 now 10 progress in the Morea, -- trachytic, alternations of alluvium and-see wood-cut No. 54, 217 - volcanic, of Auvergoe 259 Brighton, deposit containing recent shells ~~ the cliffs near, 182 Br1ttsh alluviums, how formed 147 --their age, 147, 272 ' Brocchi on the tertiary strata of the Subapennines, 18, 155 -- on the number of shells common to Italy and the Paris basin, 156 -- on the age of the Italian tertiary strata, 156 --on the organic remains of the sub· Apennine strata, 1 63 Br?mley, pebble with oysters attached to It fo~nd in the plastic clay at, 278 Brongmart, M. Alex., on the formations of the Paris basin, 16 --on the conglomerate of the hill of the Superga, 211 -- tabular view of his arrangement of the strata of the Paris basin-see woodcut No. 58, 243, 247 Bronn, M., on the loess of the Rhine, 151 153, 154 , Brown coal formation near the valley of the Rhine, 199 -- organic remains of the, 200 Bruel, quarry of, 237 Buckland, Dr., on the Val del Bove, 83' -- on the grooved summits of the Cors-torphine Hills, 147 --on the effects of the Deluge, 271 -- on the Plastic clay, 278 -- on tertiary outliers on chalk hills, 283 -- on the former continuity of the Lon· don and_ Hampshire basins, 283 -- on valleys of ele1•ation, 305, 307, 308 Budoshagy, rent exhaling sulphureous vapours in the mountain of, 223 Bufadors, jets of air from subterranean caverns called, 190 Bulimus montanus drifted from the Alps into the Mediterranean, 48 Buried cones on Etna, sections of, 88 Burton, Mr. J., his discovery of tertiary strata on the western borders of the Red Sea, 135 Cadibona, section of the fresh-water for· mations of-see wood-cut No. 55, 221 -- lignites of, remains of an anthracotherium foundlin, 222 Caernarvonshire, tertiary strata of, 135 Cresar, volcanos of Auverine not men· tioned by, 269 |