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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... gravel ( Diluvium ) and distinguished it from 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 ...
... gravel ( Diluvium ) and distinguished it from 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 ...
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... gravel banks , most honour'd Patriarch , which— N. [ looking round him ] Aye , you've done right I see , to dig that ditch ; Nothing so bad as swamps ! B. Those beds of gravel ; — [ with a low bow ] You can , kind Sir , this knotty ...
... gravel banks , most honour'd Patriarch , which— N. [ looking round him ] Aye , you've done right I see , to dig that ditch ; Nothing so bad as swamps ! B. Those beds of gravel ; — [ with a low bow ] You can , kind Sir , this knotty ...
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... gravel , and on the assumption that these animals had been created for human use , their fossil remnants corroborated the postulate of fossil man . In abbreviated lecture notes Buckland speculated : No pecora till deluge gravel . Non ...
... gravel , and on the assumption that these animals had been created for human use , their fossil remnants corroborated the postulate of fossil man . In abbreviated lecture notes Buckland speculated : No pecora till deluge gravel . Non ...
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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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