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Science & Nature
The story of the universe. Volume 2 (of 4)
Esther Singleton
422 pages~8 hr 24 min read44 chapters$4.99
Turn from the stars to the ground and the same great writers take up the earth: how the planet formed, how rocks are classed, and how life crawled across a Silurian beach into the coal forests. Volume two of Singleton's anthology reads geology through its finest voices, Lyell and Agassiz among them. Descend from the heavens into deep time.
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44 chapters
- 1THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE
- 2ILLUSTRATIONS
- 3CONTENTS
- 4I.—THE EARTH’S CRUST
- 5FORMATION OF THE EARTH —Élisée Reclus
- 6CLASSES OF ROCKS —Sir Charles Lyell
- 7GEOLOGICAL CHRONOLOGY —Sir J. William Dawson
- 8THE SILURIAN BEACH —Louis Agassiz
- 9CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD —Louis Figuier
- 10THE PALÆONTOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS —Hugh Miller
- 11EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC DELUGES —Louis Figuier
- 12GLACIERS —Louis Agassiz
- 13VOLCANIC ACTION —Sir Archibald Geikie
- 14THOUGHTS ABOUT KRAKATOA —Sir Robert S. Ball
- 15VOLCANOES —Sir Archibald Geikie
- 16EARTHQUAKES —William Hughes
- 17MOUNTAINS —A. Keith Johnston
- 18LAKES—FRESH, SALT, AND BITTER —Sir Archibald Geikie
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