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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1865-1866-294

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294 EVENING CLASSES The Course will include minute description of all the substances entering into the composition of Rocks and of those minerals which are also used in the Arts illustrated by an extensive collection of characterisiic specimens and diagrams of the principal crystalline forms &c Chrittmat to Easter eologg an iHtning Descriptive Geology Classification of Rocks into Aqueous Volcanic Plutonic and Metamorphic Mineral Composition of Strata -Arenaceous Argillaceous Calcareous Chronological Classification of Sedimentary Rocks with descriptions of the principal fossils belonging to each great deposit Tertiary or Csnozoic Series -Newer Pliocene Older Pliocene Miocene Eocene Secondary or Mesozoic Series -Cretaceous Wealden Oolitic Upper Middle and Lower Triassic Groups Primary or Paleozoic Series -Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Cambrian Groups The mode of collecting cleaning and arranging Fossils Minerals and Rock-specimens will be described Practical Geology in its application to Mining Engineeb- ing Architecture and Agriculture The Lectures delivered 011 the subject of Geology are in- tended to have especial reference to the important practical applications of that science to Engineering Mining Archi- tecture and Agriculture The Granites Syenites Porphyries Greenstones Serpentines Basalts Lavas Sandstones Lime- stones Clays &c will be described and the Minerals peculiar to each noticed The application of Geology to pursuits connected with mining operations -for Coal Iron Copper Tin Silver Gold Mercury Antimony Zinc Cobalt &c -will be specially con- sidered The Student is directed how to proceed in examining new country to collect and record his observations and mark his specimens in order to render them useful to more experienced geologists at home
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