Walks and Talks in the Geological Field (The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Cirlce)

353 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: The Geology At Our Door; Lost Rocks; The Gravel Pit; Among the Glaciers; The Hillside Spring and Its Work; Introduction to the Rocks; The Floods of the Great Lakes; The Mud Flat; The River Gorge; A Walk Under the Sea; By the Rocky Wall; Mysterious Forms of Life; Courses of the Earth's Masonry; A Walk in the Yellowstone Park; Among the Volcanoes; Frozen Seas of Lava; Imprisoned Heat; The Unstable Land; The Framework of the Mountains; How the Mountain Framework is Reared; Down in a Mine; The King of Metals; The Crystals of the Sea; Liquid Sunlight (Petroleum); Gaseous Sunlight (Natural Gas); Solidified Sunlight (Coal); Monsters of a Buried World; The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands; Lesson From a Lump of Chalk; Lone Burials in the Coal Lands; Terrible Fishes and Their Companions; Ancestry of the Pearly Nautilus; The King Crab's Grandfather and Other Grandfathers; Earth's Deepest Graves; An Earlier Beginning; Gathering World Stuff; The Whirling Fire-Mist; The Primeval Storm; The War in the Ocean; The World Without a Backbone; The Dynasty of Fishes; Scenes From the Coal Period; The Reptile Monarchies; The Mammalian Rule; Anticipation and Retrospect in Life-plans; The Throes of the Continent; The Reign of Ice; A Geologic Spring Time; The Earth Receives Her King.