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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... period : ' This interval was at least a period of one thousand six hundred and fifty - six years ; and therefore allows that space of time for all the formations between the Primordial and the Tertiary . The violent changes which ...
... period : ' This interval was at least a period of one thousand six hundred and fifty - six years ; and therefore allows that space of time for all the formations between the Primordial and the Tertiary . The violent changes which ...
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... period ( mainly greywackes ; sparse fossiles ) ; ( 3 ) the Floetz ( or Secondary ) period ( mainly 2 Gottschalk , ' Verzeichniss Derer , welche seit Eröffnung der Bergakademie auf ihr studirt haben ' , Festschrift zum hundertjährigen ...
... period ( mainly greywackes ; sparse fossiles ) ; ( 3 ) the Floetz ( or Secondary ) period ( mainly 2 Gottschalk , ' Verzeichniss Derer , welche seit Eröffnung der Bergakademie auf ihr studirt haben ' , Festschrift zum hundertjährigen ...
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... period , primitive but gigantic ferns and other cryptogamous plants dominated ; later , there was a preponderance of gymnosperms such as conifers and cycads ; later still , the angiosperms or flowering plants took over as the ruling ...
... period , primitive but gigantic ferns and other cryptogamous plants dominated ; later , there was a preponderance of gymnosperms such as conifers and cycads ; later still , the angiosperms or flowering plants took over as the ruling ...
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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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