Cape Trinity on the Saguenay.
A salient point of Laurentian Gneiss, on an old fiord of Pliocene erosion (p. 99).
(From a Photograph by Henderson.)
SOME
SALIENT
POINTS
IN THE
SCIENCE OF
THE EARTH
BY
SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON
C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c.
WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1894
PREFACE.
The present work contains much that is new, andmuch in correction and amplification of thatwhich is old; and is intended as a closing deliveranceon some of the more important questions of geology,on the part of a veteran worker, conversant in hisyounger days with those giants of the last generation,who, in the heroic age of geological science, piled upthe mountains on which it is now the privilege of theirsuccessors to stand.
J. W. D.
Montreal 1893.
CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER I. Page | |
The Starting-point | 3 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
World-making | 9 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
The Imperfection of the Geological Record | 39 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
The History of the North Atlantic | 57 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
The Dawn of Life | 95 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
What May Be Learned from Eozoon | 135 |