Archibald Geikie

Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison - Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed biography of the influential Scottish geographer Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792 1871).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781108072342
• ISBN-10: 1108072348
• Artikelnr.: 33271826

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Ancestry. School-days
2. First years of a soldier's life
3. Six months of the Peninsular War
4. Military life at home
5. Italy and art
6. Five years of fox-hunting
7. Rise of geology in Britain
8. First years of scientific life at home
9. First geological raids into the continent
10. The invasion of Grauwacke
11. The Geological Society, and social life in London
12. The Silurian system
13. The Devonian system
14. A geological tour in northern Russia
15. Central and southern Russia, and the Ural Mountains
16. The chair of the Geological Society.