Principles of Geology, Volume 3University of Chicago Press, 1990 - 604 páginas As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In this third and final volume, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) devotes much attention to the "syntax of geology," that is, to a way of reconstructing the geological past on the basis of the "grammar" of the present processes he has described in the earlier volumes. He defines four periods of the Tertiary—Newer Pliocene, Older Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene—and argues that the deposits dating from each period demonstrate the uniformity of processes and environments throughout the Tertiary, and indeed in earlier periods of earth history. Martin J. S. Rudwick has compiled a bibliography giving full references for the sources Lyell cites in all three volumes of the Principles. |
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Chapter II | 8 |
Chapter III | 22 |
Chapter IV | 34 |
Chapter V | 44 |
Chapter VI | 62 |
Chapter VII | 74 |
Chapter VIII | 94 |
Chapter IX | 102 |
Chapter XVIII | 240 |
Chapter XIX | 256 |
Chapter XX | 274 |
Chapter XXI | 284 |
Chapter XXII | 302 |
Chapter XXIII | 324 |
Chapter XXIV | 336 |
Chapter XXV | 352 |
Chapter X | 118 |
Chapter XI | 136 |
Chapter XII | 154 |
Chapter XIII | 170 |
Chapter XIV | 182 |
Chapter XV | 202 |
Chapter XVI | 216 |
Chapter XVII | 224 |
Chapter XXVI | 364 |
Table I | 386 |
Table II | 388 |
Notes | 394 |
Appendix I | 398 |
Appendix II | 52 |
Glossary | 60 |
Index | 84 |
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