Science of the Earth by Sir J. William Dawson (1893)

Frontispiece - Cape Trinity on the Saguenay. i

Dedication ii

Titlepage iii iv

Preface v vi

Contents vii viii

Illustrations ix x

Table of Geological History xi

CHAPTER I: The Starting Point. 003 004 005 006 007 008

CHAPTER II: World-Making. 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029

CHAPTER III: The Imperfection of the Geological Record. 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056

CHAPTER IV: The History of the North Atlantic. 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094

CHAPTER V: The Dawn of Life. 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134

CHAPTER VI: What May Be Learned from Eozoon. 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168

CHAPTER VII: The Apparition and Succession of Animal Forms. 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200

CHAPTER VIII: The Ggenesis and Migration of Plants 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232

CHAPTER IX: The Growth of Coal. 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256

CHAPTER X: The Oldest Air-Breathers. 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310

CHAPTER XI: Markings, Footprints and Fucoids. 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328

CHAPTER XII: Pre-Determination in Nature. 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344

CHAPTER XIII: The Great Ice Age 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382

CHAPTER XIV: Causes of Climatal Change. 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400

CHAPTER XV: The Distribution of Animals and Plants as Related to Geographical and Geological Changes. 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424

CHAPTER XVI: Alpine and Arctic Plants in Connection with Geological History. 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458

CHAPTER XVII: Early Man. 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480

CHAPTER XVIII: Man In Nature. 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL TOPICS 497 498 499

PLATES

NOTE: High Resolution (400 ppi) images of all figures and plates are located here.

Descriptions of the Plates: xvii-xviii

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	FRONTISPIECE Plate at 400 ppi
036	Cambro-Silurian Sponges (Restored). Quebec Group, Little Metis, Canada (p. 47) Plate at 400 ppi
056	Map of the North Atlantic, Showing depths from 4000 fathoms upwards (after the Challenger Surveys) Plate at 400 ppi
094	Nature-Print of Eozoon. Plate at 400 ppi
113	Details of Eozoon Plate at 400 ppi
134	Specimen of Eozoon Canadense [Dawson] Plate at 400 ppi
168	Old Forms of Trilobites Lower Cambrian Plate at 400 ppi
184	Two Primitive Vertebrates Plate at 400 ppi
200	Vegetation of the Middle Devonian Plate at 400 ppi
232	Part of a Coal Group with underclays and erect trees and Calamites (p. 238) Plate at 400 ppi
260	Footprints of Hylopus Logani, Dawson, Lower Carboniferous, Nova Scotia Plate at 400 ppi
272	Humerus and Mandibles of Dendrerpeton Acadianum Plate at 400 ppi
276	A Reptiliferous Tree in situ, South Joggins Nova Scotia Plate at 400 ppi
278	A Typical Carboniferous Microsaurian Plate at 400 ppi
286	A Serpentiform Permian Batrachian Plate at 400 ppi
289	Carboniferous Land Snails; A Devonian Land Snail Plate at 400 ppi
294	Carboniferous millipedes Carboniferous Cockroach Carboniferous Scorpion. Plate at 400 ppi
322	Probably the Cast of a Crustacean burrow. Plate at 400 ppi
336	A Giant Net-Sponge From the Quebec Group (Ordovician) Plate at 400 ppi
344	Modern Boulder Beach Plate at 400 ppi
382	North America in Periods of Warm and Cold Submergence. Plate at 400 ppi
400	Distribution of Animals in Time (p. 420) Plate at 400 ppi
480	Carving of the Palanthropic Age Cave of Mas d'Azil, France Heads of the wild horse. Plate at 400 ppi