Elements of Geology (Paperback)

Part I: 1. Of the four great classes of rocks - the aqueous, volcanic, plutonic, and metamorphic; 2. Aqueous rocks; 3. Arrangement of fossils in strata; 4. Consolidation of strata and petrification of fossils; 5. Elevation of strata above the sea; 6. Denudation, and the production of alluvium; 7. Volcanic rocks; 8. Volcanic rocks, continued; 9. Plutonic rocks - granite; 10. Metamorphic rocks; 11. Metamorphic rocks, continued; Part II: 12. On the different ages of the four great classes of rocks; 13. On the different ages of the aqueous rocks; 14. Recent and tertiary formations; 15. Cretaceous group; 16. Wealden group; 17. Oolite and lias; 18. Oolite and lias, continued; 19. New red sandstone group; 20. The coal, or carboniferous group; 21. Carboniferous group, continued, and old red sandstone; 22. Primary fossiliferous strata; 23. On the different ages of the volcanic rocks; 24. On the different ages of the plutonic rocks; 25. On the different ages of the metamorphic rocks.