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Reissued in its 1831 first edition, this work sought to help students grasp the fundamentals of a rapidly advancing science.
List of contents
Preface; Section I: 1. Figure of the Earth; 2. Density of the Earth; 3. Superficial distribution of land and water; 4. Saltness and specific gravity of the sea; 5. Temperature of the Earth; 6. Temperature of springs; 7. Temperature of the sea and lakes; 8. Temperature of the atmosphere; 9. Valleys; 10. Changes on the surface of the globe; 11. Classification of rocks; Section II: 12. Degradation of land; 13. Delivery of detritus into the sea; 14. Action of the sea on coasts; 15. Shingle beaches; 16. Sandy beaches; 17. Tides; 18. Currents; 19. Transporting power of tides; 20. Transporting power of currents; 21. Active volcanos; 22. Extinct volcanos; 23. Mineral volcanic products; 24. Volcanic dykes, etc.; 25. Earthquakes; 26. Gaseous exhalations; 27. Deposits from springs; 28. Naphtha and asphaltum springs; 29. Coral reefs and islands; 30. Submarine forests; 31. Raised beaches and masses of shells; 32. Organic remains of the modern group; Section III: 33. Erratic blocks and gravel; 34. Ossiferous caverns and osseous breccia; Section IV: 35. Supracretaceous (tertiary) group; 36. Volcanic action during the supracretaceous period; Section V: 37. Cretaceous group (chalk and green sand); 38. Wealden rocks; Section VI: 39. Oolitic group; Section VII: 40. Red sandstone group; Section VIII: 41. Carboniferous group; Section IX: 42. Grauwacke group; Section X: 43. Lowest fossiliferous group; Section XI: 44. Inferior stratified or non-fossiliferous rocks; Section XII: 45. Unstratified rocks; Section XIII: 46. On the mineralogical differences in contemporaneous rocks; 47. On the elevation of mountains; 48. On the occurrence of metals in rocks; Appendix; Index.
Summary
Henry De la Beche (1796–1855) contributed greatly to the development of geology in the nineteenth century. Reissued here in its 1831 first edition (the expanded third edition is also available in this series), this work sought to help students to grasp the fundamentals of a rapidly advancing science.
