Albert Charles Seward, Henry Lyons

Geology for Everyman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1943, this book was intended to be a useful and simply worded guide to geology for the general reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780521238977
• ISBN-10: 0521238978
• Artikelnr.: 33608254

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory: geology as a hobby
2. Earth's story-book
3. Destruction and reconstruction
4. Rocks
5. The distribution of rocks over the surface of Britain
6. Medals of creation
7. An Arctic Britain
8. From the Glacial period to Britain as it is
9. Changing climates and changing life
10. The flooding of the world
11. Estuaries, lakes and seas from the cliffs of Yorkshire to the coast of Dorset
12. Salt lakes and deserts
13. Forest, delta, and sea
14. Northern lakes and a southern sea
15. The older Palaeozoic seas
16. The end of the journey
17. The procession of life
Index.