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Cryptogams, earliest fossil, 318

Cyrena, 429, 436

Cyrtia, 346

Cyrtoceras, 333,347,375
Cystideans, 292, 325

Cystiphyllum, 345

Cytherea, 429, 444

Dadoxylon, 357

Dalmanites, 344*

Danian, 417,421

Daonella, 383

Dapedius, 395

Dasorius, 430

Dead Sea, originally fresh, 64
Decalcification, 286

Deer, fossil, 444, 448, 451
Deinocerata, 292, 432*
Deinosaurs, Triassic, 385; Jurassic,

398; Cretaceous, 415
Deinotherium, 441, 442,* 448
Deltas in lakes, 57; in the sea, 102;
animal remains in, 120

Denbighshire Grits, 335
Dendrerpeton, 360
Dendritic markings, 174
Dendrocrinus, 325

Crystalline forms of minerals, 166, Denudation (see weathering, Rain,
Dolomite, 162, 180, 205, 372, 380 Eruptive rocks, 190, 212, 263

167

Crystalline rocks, 190

Crystalline structure of rocks, 169

Crystallites, 190, 214

Ctenodonta, 332

Cubical system of crystals, 167

Cucullea, 346, 347*

Cupressinites, 428

Cupressocrinus, 345

Curvature of strata, 251
Cuttle-fishes, fossil, 393

Cyathaxonia, 324

Cyathocrinus, 362

Cyathophyllum, 324, 345*

Springs, Rivers, Glaciers, Sea),

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Dicotyledonous

known, 408

plants, earliest

Cycadeoidea, 390*

Cycadites, 390

Cycads, fossil, 291, 374, 379, 382,* Dictyograptus, 323, 324*

390*

Cypræa, 444

Cypridina-shales, 347

Cyprina, 451

Cypris, 363

Dictyonema, 323, 324

Dicynodon, 385

Didymograptus, 323*

Dimetric crystals, 167

Dimorphodon, 398

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Erratics, 86, 466

Dolphin, fossil, 443

Eskers, 465

Dragon-flies, fossil, 358, 394

Estuaries, deposit of mud in, 101

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Earth-worms, co-operation of, in
formation and removal of soil, 24

Echini, fossil, 361,* 393*

Echinoconus, 411*

Exogyra, 393, 412
Exo-skeleton, 283

FAGUS, 428

Fairy-stones, 187, 235
False bedding, 50, 230
Faluns of Touraine, 444
Famennian Group, 347
Faults, 257; influence of, on scenery,

259

Fault-rock, 257
Favosites, 324, 361

Felis, 464

Felsite, 215

Felspars, 175

Fenestella, 364*

Echinoderms, fossil, 326, 345, 361, Ferns, fossil, 319, 339,* 355,* 373,

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381, 390

Ferric oxide, 79, 164; as a cement

of rocks, 244

Ferrous carbonate, 181, 187, 208,

Ferrous oxide, 164

211, 236, 287

Ferrous sulphate, 79

Ferruginous cement of sandstones, Fuller's Earth, 401, 403

200

Fibrous minerals, 169

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Ficus, 409, 441,* 448

Fig, fossil, 408, 428, 440, 448

Fire-clay, 201; origin of, 228, 351

Fir-trees, fossil, 390, 451

Fishes, fossil, 333, 34, 365, 375,*
384, 395, 415,* 430
Fissures, 256; volcanic, 138, 144;
formed by earthquakes, 148

Flamingoes, fossil, 436
Flint, 212, 235, 421
Flint implements, 470,* 475*
Fluorides, 165, 183
Fluorine, 155, 161
Fluor-spar, 161, 183
Fluxion-structure, 192, 194, 214
Foliated structure, 194

Footprints in rocks, 233, 279, 382,
385, 399

Foraminifera, Silurian, 321; Car-
361*; Cretaceous,

boniferous,

410,* Eocene, 429

Foraminiferal ooze, 114

Forest-Bed Group, 451

Forest-Marble, 401

Fusion, crystallisation formed from,

190

Fusulina, 361*

GABBRO, 220

Galerites, 411

Ganoids, fossil, 340, 359

Gas globules in the minerals of rocks,

190

Gasteropods, 332
Gault, 417, 419
Gazelles, fossil, 448, 453
Gedinnian rocks, 347

Geographical changes indicated by
fossils, 287

Geological chronology established by
fossils, 290

Geological Record, 292, 304; im-
perfections of, 293; subdivisions
of, 293, 305, 306; chronological
value of subdivisions of, 295; vary-
ing fossiliferous character of rocks
of, 320; breaks in, 425

Geology, aims of, 6, 299
Gervillia, 393

Geysers, 80

Forests, influence of, 109; buried, Ginko, 428

288

Formation, geological, 294
Fossilisation, 284

Fossils, definition of, 279; conditions |

for production of, 284; indicate
geographical changes, 288; indi-
cate changes of climate, 289;
afford evidence of the conditions
under which volcanic eruptions
have occurred, 134; establish
geological chronology, 290; char-
acteristic, 291; furnish evidence
as to salinity of water, 372; dis-
tortion of, by cleavage, 255

Fox, Arctic, 463, 472
Fox, fossil, 451

Fragmental rocks, 187, 196
Frasnian Group, 347

Freestone, 200

Frogs, fossil, 440

Frost, influence of, 17

Giraffes, fossil, 444, 448, 453
Givet, limestone of, 347

Glacial group of deposits, 455
Glaciated country, 92, 456
Glaciers, 84; transport detritus, 84,

457; polish and striate rocks, 88,
457

Glass, volcanic, 169, 191; enclosed
in crystals, 190

Glassy condition of rocks, 191, 217,

273

Glauconitic, 200
Glauconitic marl, 419
Gleichenia, 409
Globigerina, 114,* 410*
Glutton, fossil, 451, 463, 472

Glyptichus, 391

Glyptocrinus, 325

Glyptolæmus, 341

Glyptostrobus, fossil, 448, 449*

Gneiss, 224, 308

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Great Oolite, 401, 403

Greensand, 295

Hempstead Beds, 437

Hettangian, 401

Hexagonal system of crystals, 167
Hickory, fossil, 448

Hippopodium, 393

Hippopotamus, fossil, 443, 451, 464,

469, 472

Hippurite-limestone, 412, 422
Hippurites, 292, 412, 413*
Hog, fossil, 436, 451, 474

Greensand, Lower, 419; Upper, 419 Holaster, 412

Greenstone, 220

Greywacke, 200

Greywacke rocks (Silurian), 316

Griffithides, 363

Grit, 200; schistose, 225

Ground-ice, 83

Group, stratigraphical, 294

Grouse, fossil, 436

Gryllidæ (crickets), fossil, 359
Gryphaa, 393, 394*
Gryphite limestone, 393
Guano, 212

Gum-tree, fossil, 408, 429

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HADE of a fault, 257
Hæmatite, 171, 172, 207
Halite, 184

Halysites, 324
Hamites, 413, 414*
Hare, fossil, 472
Harlech group, 336
Harpes, 344*

Hazel, fossil, 428, 451
Headon Beds, 437
Heavy spar, 164, 182
Hedgehogs, fossil, 431
Heersian, 433
Helicoceras, 414*
Heliolites, 324, 325*
Helix, 436
Helladotherium, 453*
Hemicidaris, 391

Holopæa, 333

Holoptychius, 340

Homalonotus, 329,* 344*

Honestone, 222

Horizon, stratigraphical, 293

Hornbeam fossil, 428, 440

Hornbill, African, early forms of,

430

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434, 437; Miocene, 445, 446

Inferior Oolite, 401

Infusorial earth, 111

Inoceramus, 412*

Insects, fossil, 281, 284, 334, 339, Lamantin, fossil, 443

358, 388, 394

Interglacial periods, 461

Intrusive sheets, 268

Iron, 155, 163; oxides, 164, 171;
as a colouring agent in nature, 164
Iron, carbonate of. See Ferrous
carbonate.

Iron-ore of lake bottoms, 62

Ironstone, 62, 79, 172, 207, 210,
236

Iron-sulphate in natural waters, 79
Iron-sulphide, 184; oxidation of, by
water, 79; precipitated by reducing
action of decaying organisms up-
on solutions of the sulphate, 184,
287

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