Some Salient Points in the Science of the Earth

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE STARTING-POINT.

CHAPTER I.

WORLD-MAKING.

CHAPTER II.

THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.

CHAPTER III.

THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

CHAPTER IV.

THE DAWN OF LIFE.

CHAPTER V.

WHAT MAY BE LEARNED FROM EOZOON.

CHAPTER VI.

THE APPARITION AND SUCCESSION OF ANIMAL FORMS.

CHAPTER VII.

THE GENESIS AND MIGRATIONS OF PLANTS.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE GROWTH OF COAL.

CHAPTER IX.

THE OLDEST AIR-BREATHERS.

CHAPTER X.

MARKINGS, FOOTPRINTS AND FUCOIDS.

CHAPTER XI.

PRE-DETERMINATION IN NATURE.

CHAPTER XII.

THE GREAT ICE AGE.

CHAPTER XIII.

CAUSES OF CLIMATAL CHANGE.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS AS RELATED TO GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL CHANGES.

CHAPTER XV.

ALPINE AND ARCTIC PLANTS IN CONNECTION WITH GEOLOGICAL HISTORY

CHAPTER XVI.

EARLY MAN.

CHAPTER XVII.

MAN IN NATURE.

CHAPTER XVIII.

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL TOPICS.

Cape Trinity on the Saguenay.
A salient point of Laurentian Gneiss, on an old fiord of Pliocene erosion (p. 99).
(From a Photograph by Henderson.)

SOME
SALIENT
POINTS
IN THE
SCIENCE OF
THE EARTH

BY

SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON

C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c.

WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1894


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