On the Geological Structure of the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians - More Especially to Prove a Transition From Secondary to Tertiary

Klappentext Murchison's authoritative study of 1849 which transformed contemporary understanding of European geology. Zusammenfassung Published in 1849! On the Geological Structure of the Alps! Apennines and Carpathians challenged prevailing theories surrounding these impressive geological phenomena. This landmark study and the diagrams that illustrate it not only explain a geological subject! but also reveal the nature of nineteenth-century scientific scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. General Structure of the Alps; Part II. On the Cretaceous and Nummulitic Rocks of the Carpathian Mountains; Part III. On the Chief Formations of the Apennines and Italy; Concluding remarks; Species of the Nummulitic Eocene group having a wide geographical range; On the distribution of the superficial detritus of the Alps, as compared with that of Northern Europe; Note on the geological structure of the Asturias, extracted from a letter of M. E. de Verneuil addressed to Sir Roderick I. Murchison.

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• Authors: Roderick Impey Murchison, Murchison Roderick Impey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108072564
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07256-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Southern Europe, Alps, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Geological surface processes (geomorphology), Swiss Alps, Geomorphology and geological surface processes