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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... deposits formed since the flood ( Alluvium ) . This distinction , made in colaboration with his former student Strangways , who worked in Russia near St. Petersburg , gave stratigraphic identity to the diluvial gravel and its fossil ...
... deposits formed since the flood ( Alluvium ) . This distinction , made in colaboration with his former student Strangways , who worked in Russia near St. Petersburg , gave stratigraphic identity to the diluvial gravel and its fossil ...
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... deposits in two letters to the Annals of Philosophy ( 1825 ) . 19 This defence was directed against the Scottish school of geology . The Edinburgh journals which had criticized Oxford's system of classical education were critical of the ...
... deposits in two letters to the Annals of Philosophy ( 1825 ) . 19 This defence was directed against the Scottish school of geology . The Edinburgh journals which had criticized Oxford's system of classical education were critical of the ...
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... deposits , and thus not in fact be contemporaneous with the animal fossils in these . Not only could successive layers be reworked by floods , but human activity , particularly burial practices , could have placed human remnants inside ...
... deposits , and thus not in fact be contemporaneous with the animal fossils in these . Not only could successive layers be reworked by floods , but human activity , particularly burial practices , could have placed human remnants inside ...
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HYENA DENS AND THE DELUGE Diluvial Geology as | 29 |
Objections by Biblical Literalists | 42 |
Geology and Classical Learning | 51 |
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