The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849)Clarendon Press, 1983 - 322 sider Describes the early nineteenth-century English contributions to the revolutionary discovery that the earth has existed long before man and that it had passed through a progressive sequence of changes. |
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... Caves and Diluvial Phenomena Buckland had been interested in cave paleontology long before the early 1820s . During his continental journey of 1816 he had explored some of the famous caves in Germany . The story of Kirkdale Cave ...
... Caves and Diluvial Phenomena Buckland had been interested in cave paleontology long before the early 1820s . During his continental journey of 1816 he had explored some of the famous caves in Germany . The story of Kirkdale Cave ...
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... cave and its vertebrate fossils put Buckland on a par with continental comparative anatomists . But he went further and developed an ecological theory to account for the diversity of fossil species inside the narrow cave . The notion that ...
... cave and its vertebrate fossils put Buckland on a par with continental comparative anatomists . But he went further and developed an ecological theory to account for the diversity of fossil species inside the narrow cave . The notion that ...
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... caves by Caesar and left to perish . He also pointed out that the ancient Celts used flint implements similar to those found in cave deposits . Desnoyer recognized three successive periods of cave inhabitation , the first when animal ...
... caves by Caesar and left to perish . He also pointed out that the ancient Celts used flint implements similar to those found in cave deposits . Desnoyer recognized three successive periods of cave inhabitation , the first when animal ...
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