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Principles of Geology
Charles, Sir Lyell
The book Darwin carried aboard the Beagle changed how we read the earth. Lyell argues that the same slow forces at work today, wind, water, and time, shaped every mountain and valley of the past. This revised edition gathers his maps, plates, and patient evidence. Encounter the work that gave the world deep time. Read geology's founding argument in full.
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86 chapters
- 1GEOLOGY.
- 2PRINCIPLES
- 3OF
- 4GEOLOGY.
- 5THE MODERN CHANGES OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS
- 6CONSIDERED AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF GEOLOGY.
- 7SIR CHARLES LYELL, M.A. F.R.S.
- 8NEW AND ENTIRELY REVISED EDITION.
- 9ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, PLATES, AND WOODCUTS. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON CO., 346 348 BROADWAY. M.DCCC.LIV.
- 10PREFACE TO THE NINTH EDITION.
- 11ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS
- 12THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.
- 13BOOK I. (Chapters I. to XIII.)
- 14BOOK II. (Chapters XIV. to XXXII.)
- 15BOOK III. (Chapters XXXIII to L.)
- 16LIST OF PLATES.
- 17PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY.
- 18BOOK I.
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