A Source Book in Geology, 1400–1900

Kirtley F. Mather; Shirley L. Mason

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A Source Book in Geology, 1400–1900

Kirtley F. Mather and Shirley L. Mason

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1970

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
A SOURCE BOOK IN GEOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): THE EARTH AND THE SEA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
AGRICOLA [GEORG BAUER] (1494–1555): THESTRUCTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE FORCES WHICH CHANGE THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
GEORGE OWEN (1552–1613): THE COURSE OF ROCK SEAMS IN PENBROKSHIRE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
RENÉ DESCARTES (1596–1650): RATIONAL BASIS FOR HYPOTHESIS OF CREATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM: THE COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	14
ATHANASIUS KIRCHER (1602–1680): THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
PIERRE PERRAULT (1611–1680): THE SOURCE OF WATER IN SPRINGS AND RIVERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
BERNHARD VARENIUS (1622–1650): THE FIRST PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
ROBERT BOYLE (1627–1691): CONDITIONS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
HOOKE ROBERT HOOKE (1635–1703): EARTHQUAKES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
NICOLAUS STENO (1638–1687): OF SOLIDS NATURALLY CONTAINED WITHIN SOLIDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNITZ (1646–1716): THE EARTH ORIGINALLY MOLTEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
BENOIT DE MAILLET (1656–1738): STRATA FORMED BENEATH THE SEA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
John Woodward (1665–1722) EARTH HISTORY AND THE DELUGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
John Stracbey (1671–1743): OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRATA IN THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL FIELDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Lewis Evans (c. 1700-1756): THE PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788): THE COLLISION HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN – EPOCHS OF THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
GIOVANNI TARGIONI–TOZZETTI (1712–1784): VALLEYS FORMED BY STREAM EROSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
GIOVANNI ARDUINO (1713–1795): ORIGIN OF MARBLE AND DOLOMITE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
JEANNE ETIENNE GUETTARD (1715–1786): MAP SHOWING THE ROCKS THAT TRAVERSE FRANCE AND ENGLAND 77 T H E FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDDINGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES] OF THE PARIS BASIN – THE FLUVIATILE ORIGIN OF THE PUDDINGSTONES [CONGLOMERATES] OF THE PARIS BASIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
JOHN MICHELL (1724-1793): THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES – THE EARTH COMPOSED OF REGULAR AND UNIFORM STRATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
IMMANUEL KANT ( 1724–1804): A NATURALISTIC HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	88
NICOLAS DESMAREST (1725–1805): THE VOLCANIC ORIGIN OF BASALT – AGE DETERMINATION IN A VOLCANIC REGION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
JAMES HUTTON (1726-1797): THEORY OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
LAZARRO SPALLANZANI (1729–1799): ON BASALTIFORM LAVAS AND THE ROLE OF GASES IN VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
HENRY CAVENDISH (1731–1810): EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE DENSITY OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
JEAN BAPTISLE LOUIS ROME DE L’ISLE (1736-1790): LAWS OF CRYSTALLIZATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
RUDOLPH ERIC RASPE (1737–1794): COLUMNAR JOINTING IN BASALTIC LAVA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Horace Benedicte de Saussure (1740–1799): ALPINE GEOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811): MOUNTAINS OF VARIOUS AGES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794): LITTORAL AND PELAGIC BEDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
Abbi René Just Hauy (1743-1822): A BASIS FOR A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Jobn Playfair (1748–1819): PROOFS OF THE HUTTONIAN THEORIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817): THE AQUEOUS ORIGIN OF BASALT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749–1847): THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Guy S. Tancrède de Dolomieu (1750-1801): RHYOLITIC LAVAS – RELATIONS BETWEEN THE AUVERGNE VOLCANICS AND THE GRANITE ON WHICH THEY REST – ON THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN DOLOMITE AND LIMESTONE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Jean Louis Giraud, Abbi Soulavie (1752–1813): METHODS OF DETERMINING THE CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF ROCKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Sir James Hall (1761–1832): MARBLE FROM LIMESTONE IN THE LABORATORY – RESULTS OF THE SLOW COOLING OF MELTED ROCK – THE ROLE OF HEAT IN THE CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
William Maclure (1763–1840): OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
Ernst Friederieb, Baron von Scblottbeim (1764–1832): ON THE USE OF FOSSILS IN GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
WILLIAM NICOL (C. 1768–1851): THE NICOL PRISM – THE PREPARATION OF THIN SECTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
Friedrieb Heinrieb Alexander, Baron von Humboldt (1769–1859): VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN MEXICO – EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES IN THE AMERICAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Léopold Chrétien Frédiric Dagobert Cuvier (1769–1832) REVOLUTIONS AND CATASTROPHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	188
Léopold Chrétien Frédiric Dagobert Cuvier (1769–1832) and Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847): STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PARIS BASIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
William Smith (1769–1839): THE STRATA OF ENGLAND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
John Macculloch (1773–1835): METAMORPHIC AND IGNEOUS ROCKS OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Leopold von Buch (1774–1852): THE IGNEOUS ORIGIN OF BASALT – THE RAISED COASTS OF SWEDEN – THE UPHEAVAL OF VOLCANOES – THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1862): THE CRYSTALLINE NATURE OF VOLCANIC ROCK – THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT OF THE EARTH’S INTERIOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
Jean Baptiste Julien d’Omalius D’Halloy (1783-1875): THE SYSTEMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	220
Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873): THE METAMORPHISM OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS – ON THE CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF THE LOWER PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND AND WALES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
Louis Constant Prévost (17870–1867): A NEW VOLCANIC ISLAND NOT UPHEAVED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
Francis Walker Gilmer (1790–1826): THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA A RESULT OF EROSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Jean Renk Constant Quoy (1790–1869) and Joseph Paul Gaimard (c. 1790–1858): THE FORMATION OF CORAL ISLANDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Charles Babbage (1790–1871): THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871): THE SILURIAN SYSTEM – THE PERMIAN SYSTEM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864): FOOT MARKS ON NEW RED SANDSTONE IN MASSACHUSETTS – METAMORPHISM OF THE NEWPORT CONGLOMERATE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
Bernard Studer (1794–1887): METAMORPHIC MESOZOIC ROCKS DISTINGUISHED FROM PALEOZOIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796–1855) THE DRAFTING OF GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	260
Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875): UNFORMITARIANISM – SUBDIVISIONS OF THE TERTIARY EPOCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
George Poulett Scrope (1797–1876): VOLCANOES – THE ORIGIN OF VALLEYS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
Abraham Gesner (1797–1864): THE GEOLOGY OF GRAND MANAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
Ebenezer Emmons (1798–1863): THE TACONIC SYSTEM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	284
Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874): THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF MOUNTAIN BUILDING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
Sir William Edmond Logan (1798–1875) and Thomas Sterry Hunt (1826–1892): GEOLOGIC OUTLINE OF CANADA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Sir William Edmond Logan (1798–1875): HURONIAN AND LAURENTIAN DIVISIONS OF THE AZOIC ROCKS – A PRE-CAMBRIAN FOSSIL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Heinrieb Georg Bronn (1800–1862): THE PLAN OF CREATION IN THE SERIES OF GEOLOGICAL AGES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882): INFLUENCE OF THE FOREST ON FLOODS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
HUGH MILLER (1802–1856): A QUARRY LABORER AS A GEOLOGICAL OBSERVER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892): THE ARCHEOPTERYX FROM SOLENHOFEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Daniel Sharpe (1806–1856): THE RELATION BETWEEN DISTORTION AND SLATY CLEAVAGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Reinhard Bernhardt: AN HYPOTHESIS OF EXTENSIVE GLACIATION IN PREHISTORIC TIME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Louis Jean Agassiz (1807–1873) EVIDENCE OF A GLACIAL EPOCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS (1805–1881): FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC AGE OF CERTAIN ROCKS IN NEW ENGLAND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
HENRY DARWIN ROGERS (1809–1866) AND WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS (1805–1881): MOUNTAIN BUILDING FORCES EXEMPLIFIED BY THE APPALACHIAN SYSTEM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	338
HENRY DARWIN ROGERS ( 1809–1866): AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE APPALACHIAN COAL STRATA, BITUMINOUS AND ANTHRACITIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	346
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809–1882): THE ORIGIN OF CORAL REEFS AND ISLANDS – THE SETTLING OF CRYSTALS IN MOLTEN LAVA – T H E NATURE OF GRANITE CONTACTS – RECENT UPLIFT OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN COAST – THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF LIFE DEVELOPMENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	354
ROBERT EVEREST (C. 1805–C. 1875): A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF STREAM TRANSPORTATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
ANDREW ATKINSON HUMPHREYS (1810–1883) AND HENRY LARCOM ABBOT (1831–1927): THE AMOUNT OF SEDIMENT CARRIED BY THE MISSISSIPPI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
WILLIAM H. SIDELL (1810–1873): ON CERTAIN GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
THOMAS OLDHAM (1817–1878): STREAM EROSION AND TRANSPORTATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
ALEXANDRE SURELL (1813–1887): TORRENTIAL STREAMS AND THEIR CONTROL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	372
JOSEPH BEETE JUKES (1811–1869): DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTEMPORANEOUS AND INTRUSIVE TRAP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
ROBERT WILHELM EBERHARD VON BUNSEN ( 1811–1899): GENETIC RELATIONS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Robert Mallet (1810–1881): THE DYNAMICS OF EARTHQUAKES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
John Henry Pratt (c. 1811–1871): THE ATTRACTION OF THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS UPON THE PLUMBLINE IN INDIA – THE DEFLECTION OF THE PLUMB-LINE IN INDIA AND THE COMPENSATORY EFFECT OF A DEFICIENCY OF MATTER BELOW THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS – SPECULATION ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH’S CRUST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
George Bedell Airy (1801–1892): AN HYPOTHESIS OF CRUSTAL BALANCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
JAMES HALL (1811–1898) CORRELATION OF PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF NEW YORK WITH THOSE OF EUROPE – THE RELATION OF MOUNTAINS TO REGIONS OF THICK SEDIMENTARY ACCUMULATION – PHYSICAL CONDITIONS IN PALEOZOIC SEAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	406
James Dwight Dana ( 1813–1895): ORIGIN OF THE MINERAL CONSTITUTION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS – ON THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND MOUNTAIN RANGES – ON THE NATURE OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	416
Sir Andrew Crosbie Ramsay (1814–1891): MARINE DENUDATION IN SOUTHERN WALES – ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE OF GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS IN THE PERMIAN EPOCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	430
Gabriel August Daubrée (1814–1896): EXPERIMENTS ON THE ACTION OF SUPERHEATED WATER IN THE FORMATION OF SILICATES – FRACTURES RESULTING FROM TORSIONAL STRAINS – EXPERIMENTS ON THE FOLDING AND FAULTING OF STRATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	440
Alpbonse Favre (1815–1890): EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION OF MOUNTAIN STRUCTURES BY LATERAL COMPRESSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	448
J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903): APPALACHIAN STRUCTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY – PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES OF EASTERN UNITED STATES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	450
John William Dawson (1820–1899): MARINE ALLUVIAL SOILS – CARBONIFEROUS FOSSILS OF THE JOGGINS SECTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
Jobn Strong Newberry ( 1822–1892): CIRCLES OF DEPOSITION IN AMERICAN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	465
Joseph Le Conte (1823–1901): ON THE ORIGIN OF NORMAL FAULTS AND OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE BASIN REGION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN ( 1824–1907): ON THE SECULAR COOLING OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	472
HERMANN STERNBERG (1825–1885): STREAM PROFILES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY ( 1825–1895): THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
HENRY CLIFTON SORBY (1826–1908): ON THE ORIGIN OF SLATY CLEAVAGE – ON THE MICROSCOPICAL STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS, INDICATING THE ORIGIN OF MINERALS AND ROCKS – THIN SECTIONS AND THEIR VALUE TO THE GEOLOGIST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	484
FERDINAND ANDRÉ FOUQUÉ (1828–1904 ): AND AUGUSTE MICHEL-LÉVY (1844–1908) THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF FELDSPARS – THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF A CRYSTALLINE IGNEOUS ROCK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	494
WILLIAM HENRY BREWER (1828–1910): THE DEPOSITION OF CLAY IN SALT WATER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
CARL OCHSENIUS (1830–1906): THE DEPOSITION OF ROCK SALT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
EDUARD SUESS (1831–1914): ON MOUNTAIN STRUCTURES AND THE FORCES WHICH FORM THEM – STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
THOMAS MELLARD READE (1832–1909): THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLUTION AS A FACTOR IN EROSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509
BARON FERDINAND VON RICHTBOFEN (1833–1905): A CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANIC ROCKS – MARINE ABRASION AND TRANSGRESSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511
JOHN WESLEY POWELL (1834–1902): A CLASSIFICATION OF STREAMS AND VALLEYS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	518
SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE (1835–1924): ON DENUDATION NOW IN PROGRESS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
GASTON DE LA NOË (1836–1902): AND EMMANUEL DE MARGERIE (1862–): CONCERNING THE FASHIONING OF SLOPES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	529
FERENCZ POŠEPNÝ (1836–1895): GROUND WATER AND THE DEPOSITION OF ORE BODIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	537
Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923): THE RELATION OF SECULAR ROCK-DISINTEGRATION TO LOESS, GLACIAL DRIFT, AND ROCK BASINS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	542
Richard Anthony Proctor (1837–1888): METEORIC SYSTEMS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
James Geikie (1839–1915): ON CHANGES OF CLIMATE DURING THE GLACIAL EPOCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
Nathaniel Soutbgate Shaler (1841–1906): THE CHANGE OF SEA LEVEL – ORIGIN OF FIORDS AND ESTUARIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551
Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912): THE GREAT DENUDATION – ISOSEISMAL LINES AND EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY – ISOSTASY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	555
Karl August Lossen (1841–1893): THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTACT AND REGIONAL METAMORPHISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	569
Alexander William Bickerton (1842–1914): COLLISION AND ACCRETION HYPOTHESIS OF EARTH ORIGIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	574
Charles Lapworth (1842–1920): THE ORDOVICIAN SYSTEM – THE SECRET OF THE HIGHLANDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	578
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918): AN ANALYSIS OF SUBAERIAL EROSION – LAND SCULPTURE – LACCOLITHS AND THEIR ORIGIN – HISTORY OF LAKE BONNEVILLE – THE TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF LAKE SHORES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	581
Tbomas Crowder Cbamberlin (1843–1928): THE METHOD OF MULTIPLE WORKING HYPOTHESIS – ON THE INTERIOR STRUCTURE, SURFACE TEMPERATURE, AND AGE OF THE EARTH – THE PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	604
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847-1907): OVERTHRUSTING IN THE ALPS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	631
Archibald Robertson Marvine (1848–1876): PROCESSES OF EROSION IN THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	637
Israel Charles White (1848–1927): THE ANTICLINAL THEORY OF GAS ACCUMULATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	639
ALBERT HEIM (1849–1937): ON ROCK DEFORMATION DURING MOUNTAIN BUILDING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	642
WILLIAM MORRIS DAVIS (1850–1934): THE EROSION CYCLE IN THE LIFE OF A RIVER – PLAINS OF MARINE AND SUBAERIAL DENUDATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	649
W.J. MCGEE (1853–1912): THE COASTAL PLAIN AND THE FALL LINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	661
JOSEPH PAXSON IDDINGS (1857–1920): PHENOCRYSTS – RELATION BETWEEN MINERAL COMPOSITION AND MODE OF OCCURRENCE OF IGNEOUS ROCKS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	663
CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE (1857–1918): PRE–CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY – THE MEANING OF ROCK FLOWAGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	666
GUIDE TO SUBJECT MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	683
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	693

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eBook published on:

October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674180666

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1970

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674180659

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Reprint 2014

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Front matter:

22

Main content:

702

Illustrations:

42

Other:

7 illustrations, 20 figures, 1 map, 5 tables

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674180666

eBook ISBN: 9780674180666

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674180659

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SCIENCE / General; SCIENCE / History; Geology -- History.; Geology.

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A Source Book in Geology, 1400–1900

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