A New System of Geology: In which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - 621 sidor

PREFACE	vii

Bacon on intercourse of Science and Revelation	xiv

Illogical procedure of geological theorists	xxi

Geology of Hutton and Werner alike ideal xxvii to	xxxv

Sound and unsound philosophy exemplified	xli

New era of practical geology	xlvii

Arrangement and importance of organic remains	1

Original solidity of the globe	7

Siliceous limestoneroof of the 2d marine formation	322

The superior sandstones and marine sands	333

Concluding observations on tertiary strata	341

Physical events subordinate to moral purpose	349

Tracks of travelled diluvium now visible	365

Valleys of denudation scooped out by the deluge	367

Causes of Geological Catastrophe	373

Amount of volcanic fires	379

Light and heat related	17

Vibratory diffusion of light by advancing and receding pulses	34

How double light from the sun may cause darkness	41

Aragos fine confirmatory experiments	49

Constitution of a dry atmosphere and of one mixed with	55

Composition and complex relations of water	62

Daniells theory of clouds	63

Atmosphere of the primeval globe	69

The spheroid becomes irregular on the separation of	75

Creation of the vegetable world	81

Page	92

through	120

BOOK II	129

Coloured figure of section of Malmsbury coalfield	185

Red marl or new red sandstone	191

Enormous Megalosaurus of Buckland	221

Form and habits of the living animal deduced by Cuvier	235

Beds between the chalk and oolite series	243

The chalk formation of England and the Continent	279

Its organic remains Echinite family characteristic	285

Organic remains numerous and peculiar	299

Recapitulation of the superposition of English strata	309

Chalk tufau and chloritous chalk	315

Sir H Davy on volcanic action	389

True cause of the phenomena investigated	399

Pseudostratification of trap with figure	405

Great trap district of Ireland	413

Basaltic eruptions in the Alps	419

The constitution of the Primeval World and	425

Secondary strata consist of triads	431

Terraqueous constitution long unstable	437

A Brogniart and Dr Martius on antediluvian botany	444

Polyparies of primeval growthwith general table of living	456

Coral islands raised above sealevel by volcanic power	465

Earth of the antediluvians destroyed	471

Diluvial defluxits enormous power illustrated	479

Area and depth of ocean inverted by the deluge	495

Primeval stock of animals extinct and face of earth revivified	501

Bony framework of existing species invariable	514

Gigantic fossil tapirs	543

Animals of the antediluvian dens and rocky fissures	557

Bonebreccias of the Mediterranean coasts	584

Osseous breccia of analogous nature with the cavern loam	590

Concluding reflections	615

Explanation of Plates	621

Titel	A New System of Geology: In which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History
Författare	Andrew Ure
Utgivare	Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829
Original från	University of Michigan
Digitaliserad	15 jan 2009
Längd	621 sidor

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