Charles Lyell

Elements of Geology

Or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants As Illustrated by Geological Monuments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 822
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9781018002187
• ISBN-10: 1018002189
• Artikelnr.: 67100066

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Of the four great classes of rocks - the aqueous, volcanic, plutonic, and metamorphic
2. Aqueous rocks
3. Arrangement of fossils in strata
4. Consolidation of strata and petrification of fossils
5. Elevation of strata above the sea
6. Denudation, and the production of alluvium
7. Volcanic rocks
8. Volcanic rocks, continued
9. Plutonic rocks - granite
10. Metamorphic rocks
11. Metamorphic rocks, continued
Part II: 12. On the different ages of the four great classes of rocks
13. On the different ages of the aqueous rocks
14. Recent and tertiary formations
15. Cretaceous group
16. Wealden group
17. Oolite and lias
18. Oolite and lias, continued
19. New red sandstone group
20. The coal, or carboniferous group
21. Carboniferous group, continued, and old red sandstone
22. Primary fossiliferous strata
23. On the different ages of the volcanic rocks
24. On the different ages of the plutonic rocks
25. On the different ages of the metamorphic rocks.