Strabo. Dante. Celsius and Linnaeus. Nordenankar. Playfair and Leopold von Buch. Goethe. Lyell and Darwin as supporters of the theory of elevation. Bravais and Eugene Robert. Chambers and Domeyko; renewed expressions of doubt. Theories based on gravitation. Adhémar and his successors. Summaries; Howorth. Terminology. Genuine case of dislocation in New Zealand. Plan of the following chapters.

The Canadian shield. The Baltic shield. Glint lines. The table-land of Spitzbergen. Greenland. The Caledonian mountains. The Armorican mountains. The Variscan mountains. The syntaxis of Central Europe. The Iberian Meseta. Survey of the pre-Permian mountains in Europe. The islands of Europe. Western Africa. The east of Central and South America. Survey of the outlines of the Atlantic.

New Zealand. Australia. New Caledonia. The sea of Banda. Borneo. Cocbin China, Tongking. The Philippines. Formosa and the Liu-Kiu islands. Japan. The Kuriles and Kamchatka. General survey of the island arcs. Eastern China. Northeastern Asia. The arc of the Aleutian islands. The west coast of America.

The Atlantic structure. The Pacific structure. Their dissimilarity. Distribution of islands and volcanos. Overthrusting of the depressions. Progressive completion of the Mesozoic series towards the Pacific coast.

Introduction: The abyssal region; cycles; thickness of the sediments. The North Atlantic continent. Upper limit of the Silurian. Universality of the middle Devonian transgression. The Carboniferous system. Paralic beds. Alternation of coal beds and marine sediments. Transgression of the Carboniferous limestone. The Permian system. Gondwána land. General Survey.

The seas of the Trias. Positive movements in the Rhaetic epoch. Continuation of positive movements during the Jurassic epoch. Negative phase in central Europe and commencement of the Cretaceous epoch. Later transgressions and intermixture of the Cretaceous faunas. The Cenomanian transgression. General survey of the Mesozoic seas.

Negative phase at the close of the Cretaceous epoch. The central Mediterranean of the Tertiary aera. The east coast of North America. The Tertiary region of Patagonia. Recent limestone formations. Summary.

From Tjoalma Vagge to the sea. From lake Tornea to the sea. Movement of the ice contrary to the slope of the valleys. Origin of the glint lakes of Lapland. Ancient strand-lines of the fjords. Origin of the seter. Comparison with Greenland. Vestiges left by the retreating ice.

The north-west coast of Italy. Situation of the temple of Serapis in the Phlegraean crater. The temple up to the year 1538. The eruption of 1538. Excavation of the temple and its present condition. Various attempts at explanation. Volcanic phenomena.

Salinity within the Skager Rack. Mean level of the Baltic on the German coast. Oscillations on the coasts of Sweden and Finland. General survey of the negative displacement. Submerged forests and peat bogs of the North sea. The haffs and peat bogs of the Baltic coasts.

The sea of Azoy and the Black sea. Locus of maximum depression in the surface of the Mediterranean. The western Mediterranean. Venice. The Dinaro-Tauric region. The south-east Mediterranean. Conclusion.

Diversity in form of the surface of the Oceans. Western coasts of the North Atlantic. Eastern coasts of the North Atlantic. The north of Eurasia and the west coasts of the North Pacific. East coasts of the North Pacific.

Western coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, central and southern part. Eastern coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, African part. Coasts of East Africa and Arabia. Coasts of India and Further India. Coasts of the Polynesian islands and Australia. West coast of South America.

The boundaries of the Oceans. Eustatic negative movement. Transgressions. Eustatic positive movement. Inadequacy of eustatic movements. River mouths and river terraces. General survey of comparatively recent strand-lines. Oscillations of the Oceans. Alternating equatorial phases. The continents a result of subsidence. No appreciable change of level in the historic period.

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