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The Student's Elements of Geology

by Charles Lyell

2018-11-17 20:16:22

A Manual of Elementary Geology is a classic geology textbook by Charles Lyell. In consequence of the rapid sale of the third edition of the "Manual," of which 2000 copies were printed in January last, a new edition has been called for in less than a ... Read more
A Manual of Elementary Geology is a classic geology textbook by Charles Lyell. In consequence of the rapid sale of the third edition of the "Manual," of which 2000 copies were printed in January last, a new edition has been called for in less than a twelvemonth. Even in this short interval some new facts of unusual importance in paleontology have come to light, or have been verified for the first time. Instead of introducing these new discoveries into the body of the work, which would render them inaccessible to the purchasers of the former edition, I have given them in a postscript to this Preface (printed and sold separately), and have pointed out at the same time their bearing on certain questions of the highest theoretical interest. Less

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File size270.326 KB
Print pages644
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-07-30
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781313873338,
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS was a Scottish geologist who popularised the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which presented uniformita...

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