Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Further Reading

A Note on this Edition

Charles Lyell’s PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY

VOLUME I (1830)

1 Objects and Nature of Geology

2*–4 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Geology

5 Theoretical Errors which have Retarded the Progress of Geology

6 Assumed Discordance of the Ancient and Existing Causes of Change Controverted – Climate

7 Climate, continued

8 Climate, continued

9 Theory of the Progressive Development of Organic Life

10–17 Aqueous Causes

18–22 Igneous Causes

23–24 Earthquakes and their Effects

25 Earthquakes, continued – Temple of Serapis

26 Causes of Earthquakes and Volcanos

VOLUME II (1832)

1 Changes of the Organic World – Reality of Species

2 Theory of the Transmutation of Species Untenable

3 Limits of the Variability of Species

4 Hybrids

5–7 Geographical Distribution of Species

8 Changes in the Animate World, which Tend to the Extinction of Species

9 Changes in the Animate World, which Tend to the Extinction of Species, continued

10 Changes in the Inorganic World, Tending to the Extinction of Species

11 Whether the Extinction and Creation of Species can Now be in Progress

12 Modifications in Physical Geography Caused by Plants, the Inferior Animals, and Man

13–16, 17 How the Remains of Man
and his Works are becoming Fossil beneath the Waters

18 Corals and Coral Reefs

VOLUME III (1833)

1 Methods of Theorizing in Geology

2 General Arrangement of the Materials Composing the Earth’s Crust

3 Different Circumstances under which the Secondary and Tertiary Formations may have Originated

4 Determination of the Relative Ages of Rocks

5 Classification of Tertiary Formations in Chronological Order

6–7 Newer Pliocene Formations – Sicily

8 Rocks of the Same Age in Etna

9 Origin of the Newer Pliocene Strata of Sicily

10–26 Former Changes of the Earth’s Surface

Concludinssg Remarks

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography of Reviews

Index