Beagle Expedition (1831-1836); Geology -- South America; Volcanoes
Australia.
Azores.
Bahia in Brazil, dikes at.
Bailly, M., on the mountains of Mauritius.
Bald Head.
Banks’ Cove.
Barn, The, St. Helena.
Basalt, specific gravity of.
Basaltic coast-mountains at Mauritius. -at St. Helena. -at St. Jago.
Beaumont, M. Elie de, on circular subsidences in lava. -on dikes
indicating elevation. -on inclination of lava-streams. -on laminated
dikes.
Bermuda, calcareous rocks of.
Beudant, M., on bombs. -on jasper. -on laminated trachyte. -on obsidian
of Hungary. -on silex in trachyte.
Bole.
Bombs, volcanic.
Bory St. Vincent, on bombs.
Boulders, absence in Australia and Cape of Good Hope.
Brattle island.
Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareo-animal substance. -on decomposed glass.
Brown, Mr. R., on extinct plants from Van Diemen’s land. -on
sphaerulitic bodies in silicified wood.
Buch, Von, on cavernous lava. -on central volcanoes. -on crystals
sinking in obsidian. -on laminated lava. -on obsidian streams. -on
olivine in basalt. -on superficial calcareous beds in the Canary
islands.
Calcareous deposit at St. Jago affected by heat. -fibrous matter,
entangled in streaks in scoriae. -freestone at Ascension.
-incrustations at Ascension. -sandstone at St. Helena. -superficial
beds at King George’s sound.
Cape of Good Hope.
Carbonic acid, expulsion of, by heat.
Carmichael, Capt., on glassy coatings to dikes.
Casts, calcareous, of branches.
Chalcedonic nodules.
Chalcedony in basalt and in silicified wood.
Chatham island.
Chlorophaeite.
Clarke, Rev. W., on the Cape of Good Hope.
Clay-slate, its decomposition and junction with granite at the Cape of
Good Hope.
Cleavage of clay-slate in Australia.
Cleavage, cross, in sandstone.
Coast denudation at St. Helena.
Columnar basalt.
“Comptes Rendus,” account of volcanic phenomena in the Atlantic.
Concepcion, earthquake of.
Concretions in aqueous and igneous rocks compared. -in tuff. -of
obsidian.
Conglomerate, recent, at St. Jago.
Coquimbo, curious rock of.
Corals, fossil, from Van Diemen’s Land.
Crater, segment of, at the Galapagos. -great central one at St. Helena.
-internal ledges round, and parapet on.
Craters, basaltic, at Ascension. -form of, affected by the trade wind.
-of elevation. -of tuff at Terceira. -of tuff at the Galapagos
archipelago. -their breached state. -small basaltic at St. Jago. —at
the Galapagos archipelago.
Crystallisation favoured by space.
Dartigues, M., on sphaerulites.
Daubeny, Dr., on a basin-formed island. -on fragments in trachyte.
D’Aubuisson on hills of phonolite. -on the composition of obsidian. -on
the lamination of clay-slate.
De la Beche, Sir H., on magnesia in erupted lime. -on specific gravity
of limestones.
Denudation of coast at St. Helena.
Diana’s Peak, St. Helena.
Dieffenbach, Dr., on the Chatham Islands.
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