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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... rocks which compose the earth's crust recognized Primary , Transition , Secondary , and Tertiary deposits . The Transition and Secondary formations were the extensive , fossiliferous rocks between the Primary granite basement and the ...
... rocks which compose the earth's crust recognized Primary , Transition , Secondary , and Tertiary deposits . The Transition and Secondary formations were the extensive , fossiliferous rocks between the Primary granite basement and the ...
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... rocks were classified separately . This stratigraphic system was based primarily on the rock succession in the region of Werner's residence where the older portion of non - fossiliferous crystalline rocks predominated.3 Werner ...
... rocks were classified separately . This stratigraphic system was based primarily on the rock succession in the region of Werner's residence where the older portion of non - fossiliferous crystalline rocks predominated.3 Werner ...
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... rocks 1 Granite Gneiss empiricism of the Geological Society , and the consanguinity of. 2 Plutonic rocks 6 Tertiary rocks 5 Oolite & chalk 4 Poikilitic rocks 3 Transition rocks Secondary rocks CENTRAL HEAT 11. The evolution of the ...
... rocks 1 Granite Gneiss empiricism of the Geological Society , and the consanguinity of. 2 Plutonic rocks 6 Tertiary rocks 5 Oolite & chalk 4 Poikilitic rocks 3 Transition rocks Secondary rocks CENTRAL HEAT 11. The evolution of the ...
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