CONTENTS

BOOK I

GEOMORPHIC CHANGES

CHAPTER I

AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF REGIONAL OSCILLA-

TIONS OF THE LEVEL OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE,

WITH A THEORY OF GEOMORPHIC CHANGES

PART

I. GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES Of Bendings

AND CHANGES OF LEVEL OF THE

EARTH'S CRUST.

PART II.-ORIGIN OF REGIONAL VERTICAL

MOVEMENTS OF THE EARTH'S CRUST.

PART III.-MAGNITUDE OF THE MECHANICAL

FORCES INVOLVED IN CONTINENTAL

OSCILLATIONS.

PAGES

1-40

CHANGE OF FORM BY EXPANSION AS AN ELEMENT IN

MOUNTAIN BUILDING

CHAPTER X

A FURTHER ILLUSTRATION OF THE STRATA-PLATE AND

THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF SMALL RECURRENT

EXPANSIONS

131-138

139-145

EXPERIMENTS IN THE COMPRESSION OF SHEETS OF

DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES BY CONVERGING PRESSURE

APPLIED AT THE EDGES

THE FORMATION OF DOMED ANTICLINALS

CHAPTER XV

FOLDING OF CLAY STRATA-PLATES BY CIRCUMFER-

ENTIAL COMPRESSION

CHAPTER XVI

WHAT THE EXPERIMENTS IN CIRCUMFERENTIAL COM-

PRESSION TELL US

CHAPTER XVII

INSTANCES OF THE EFFECT OF EXPANSION DUE TO

159-166

167-169

170-189

190-200

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE

201-210

CHAPTER XVIII

NORMAL OR CONTRACTION FAULTS

211-215

DENUDATION OF THE TWO AMERICAS (Presidential

Address to the Liverpool Geological Society, 1884-5) 255-282

CHAPTER XXI

THE NORTH ATLANTIC AS A GEOLOGICAL BASIN

(Presidential Address to the Liverpool Geological

BEARING OF THE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SUPPOSED

PERMANENCE OF OCEANS AND CONTINENTS

CHAPTER XXIV

304-317

PLATES

PLATE

I. DIAGRAM OF THE EARTH, TO ILLUSTRATE THE THEORY OF GEOMORPHIC CHANGES II. SECTION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

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144

148

ANTICLINAL DOMES

IX. MODELS OF DEVELOPABLE SURFACES

X. MODELS OF OCTAGON, EXHIBITING SPIRAL
MOVEMENTS.

XI. COMBINATION LEAD BARS, SHOWING THE
FORMATION OF ANTICLINALS BY END
COMPRESSION

XII. PHOTOGRAPHS OF MODELS OF COMBINA-
TION LEAD BARS, SHOWING THE
FORMATION OF ANTICLINALS BY END
COMPRESSION

XIII. DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING VARIOUS Ex-
PERIMENTS ON THE END COMPRESSION
OF BARS OF VARIOUS MATERIALS.