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INDEX. Adie, contraction of rocks on cooling, 68 Age of the world on hypothesis of so- lidity, 59, 62, 71, 74 Airy, on mean density, 19; on at- traction of mountain masses, 145 Amount of compression, chap, XIII. 168, 282 Appalachians, thickness of sediment in, 80 Av.line, thickness of Cambrian rocks, 80 | Axes, mean of earth, 33 Babbage, on temple of Serapis, 82 Baily, mean density, 19 Barnard, on thickness of crust, 22 Bath waters, 16 Bedding, inversions of, 180 Bird, Miss, on Kilauea, 26 — Bunsen, law of, 251 Cambrian rocks, thickness of, 80 Capillary absorption, 91 Carlisle, Bp of, on geological time, 74, note Cavendish, mean density, 19 Channel Islands, 186, note Colorado Plateau, 81 Compression; and contraction, 45; effect of, on disturbed tract, 118; pos- sible causes of, 170; amount of, chap. x1. 168, 282; on hypothesis of fluid substratum, 171, 177; conti- nental, 179; and volcanic action, chap. xv. 185, 284; work of, 195; may be caused by vapour pressure, 197; from solidification of dykes, 198; American geologists on, 201; energy producing, 205; amount of, if due to volcanic action, 206 ; causes of, examined, 218 Conclusion, 266 Condition of interior, chap. m1. 18, 21, 268 Conductivity of rock; effect on increase of temperature, 5, note, 62; not in- volved in estimating amount of elevations, 71 Continents, antiquity of, 82, 169 Contraction in cooling, 23; theory of, 34; Capt. Dutton on, 84 Convection currents in a bore hole, 7 Coral reefs, Darwin on, 260 Corrugations of a thin crust, mathe- matical problem of, 100; do not represent the case of nature, 112 Cosmogony, 93 LOO (CO) (CO)