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The Student's Elements of Geology
Charles, Sir Lyell
The book that taught generations to read the earth's layers, Charles Lyell's Elements lays out the whole science of geology: rocks and their classes, the slow work of water, and the strata that record the planet's past. Comprehensive and lucid, with hundreds of illustrations. The foundational textbook from the man who made geology modern. Learn to read the rocks.
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44 chapters
- 1The Student’s Elements of Geology
- 2AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY,” “THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN,” ETC.
- 3WITH MORE THAN 600 ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD. NEW YORK HARPER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS 1878
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5PREFACE.
- 6CHAPTER I. ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS.
- 7CHAPTER II. AQUEOUS ROCKS.—THEIR COMPOSITION AND FORMS OF STRATIFICATION.
- 8CHAPTER III. ARRANGEMENT OF FOSSILS IN STRATA.—FRESH-WATER AND MARINE FOSSILS.
- 9CHAPTER IV. CONSOLIDATION OF STRATA AND PETRIFACTION OF FOSSILS.
- 10CHAPTER V. ELEVATION OF STRATA ABOVE THE SEA.—HORIZONTAL AND INCLINED STRATIFICATION.
- 11CHAPTER VI. DENUDATION
- 12CHAPTER VII. JOINT ACTION OF DENUDATION, UPHEAVAL, AND SUBSIDENCE IN REMODELLING THE EARTH’S CRUST.
- 13CHAPTER VIII. CHRONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKS.
- 14CHAPTER IX. CLASSIFICATION OF TERTIARY FORMATIONS.
- 15CHAPTER X. RECENT AND POST-PLIOCENE PERIODS.
- 16CHAPTER XI. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued—GLACIAL CONDITIONS.[1]
- 17CHAPTER XII. POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued.—GLACIAL CONDITIONS, concluded.
- 18TERTIARY OR CAINOZOIC PERIOD
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