Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

J. Murray, 1854 - Geology, Stratigraphic - 523 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• GEOLOGICAL: 6
• Outlines Structure and Order of the older Rocks Earliest Crystalline Rocks: 17
• General Order of the Primeval Rocks: 22
• Section from the Longmynd on: 29
• The Western Face of the Stiper Stones: 37
• Paradoxides Forchhammeri Angelin: 43
• The Llandeilo Formation its Slates Schists Sandstones Limestones and Interpo: 45
• Section at Llandewi Felfrey Pem: 49
• Whittery Quarries in Marrington: 55
• Section across the Gelli Hills: 61
• CHAP IV: 78
• General Character of the Upper Silurian Rocks as divided into the Wenlock: 100
• Wood Hanter Hill and Hergest: 105
• Section across the elevated Valley: 106
• View of Wenlock Edge as seen from: 113
• Corals of the Wenlock Limestone: 119
• CHAP VI: 124
• Ludlow Castle: 125
• The Palmers Cairn Landslip: 131
• Brecon Anticlinal of Ludlow Rocks: 141
• CHAP VII: 144
• View of the Cliffs near St Abbs Head: 150
• Silurian Rocks of the South of Scot: 156
• Section across the Bins of Connemara: 169
• ORGANIC REMAINS OF THE Lower SILURIAN Rocks: 176
• lower Silurian Zoophytes: 177
• Lower Silurian Brachiopods: 185
• Gasteropoda: 193
• CHAP IX: 198
• Trilobites typical of the Lower Silu: 201
• Fossils OF THE UPPER SILURIAN Rocks: 207
• Section of Stromatopora striatella: 210
• Ptilodictya scalpellum Lonsdale: 216
• Upper Silurian Brachiopoda: 222
• Upper Silurian Cephalopods: 231
• CHAP X: 241
• View from the Slaty Lower Silurian: 243
• CHAP XI: 267
• Changes of the Surface before the Permian Deposits were accumulated Origin: 289
• CHAP XIII: 316
• CHAP XIV: 336
• SILURIAN DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS OF FRANCE SPAIN PORTU: 383
• SUCCESSION OF PRIMEVAL ROCKS IN AMERICA: 408
• Ox THE ORIGINAL FORMATION OF GOLD AND ITS SUBSEQUENT DISTRIBUTION: 431
• Recapitulation General View of the Succession of Life from a Beginning: 459
• A Vertical Range of Silurian Fossils: 485
• Traces of Vegetable Matter in the Silurian and older Rocks: 492
• N Palæozoic Rocks in Asia Minor: 498
• INDEX: 507

Bibliographic information

• Title: Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth; Livres anciens
• Author: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
• Edition: 4
• Publisher: J. Murray, 1854
• Original from: Lyon Public Library
• Digitized: Aug 11, 2011
• Length: 523 pages