Download or read book On the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow Vol 1 written by Archibald Geikie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Vol. 1: Part II, on the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of Scotland The chief addition to the agents demanded by Hall's hypo thesis was the introduction of ice as a means of transporting large masses of rock. Though the carrying power of ice had been so clearly pointed out by Playfair at the beginning of the century, yet his remarks for thirty or forty years appear to have been altogether forgotten. Hardly, however, had the speculations of Mr. Smith appeared, preceded and accompanied as they were by those of Sir Charles Lyell on the upraised deposits of Sweden and the sands and clays of Norfolk, ' when light from a new quarter began to dawn on the dark and obscure history of the Drift. Already in an address read before the Helvetic Natural History Society in the summer of Agassiz, following up the suggestion of Playfair and the bold speculations of Venetz,3 announced his belief that Switzer land had once been sealed in ice, that its rocks owed their present grooved and polished surfaces to the passage of this icy sheet over them, and that to the same cause was due the transport of enormous blocks of stone from the Alps to the J ura. In the following year, Dr. Buckland, under the guidance of the Swiss naturalist, examined these phenomena on the spot, and by witnessing the effects of actual glaciers, became convinced that the grooving and striation of the rocks of the British Isles, and the position of the erratic blocks there, though now far removed from any glacier, were, nevertheless, due to the same agency which is now grinding and polishing the sides of the higher valleys of the Alps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The North British Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America written by Harold W. Borns, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He published these very critical field observations and inferences in numerous articles in local newspapers and magazines, and in the American Journal of Science in 1864. His work put him on the “team” of Benjamin Silliman, James D. Dana and Louis Agassiz as an advocate for glaciation as the regional land shaping force opposed to that of the Biblical Deluge, a major scientific conflict of the day both in North America and Europe. He remained a shadowy player, in the background, but clearly contributed critical observations to the argument through personal interactions with Agassiz and other prominent naturalists. They incorporated DeLaski’s observations into their own presentations, often without giving him credit. John DeLaski’s summary work, a 400 page handwritten manuscript for the book, “The Ancient Great Glacier of North America”, was dated 1869. He died in 1874 and the book was not published. The historic significance of DeLaski’s unpublished book is based upon its startling contribution to one of the major scientific questions of the day of whether the surficial geology of northern U.S. and Canada was caused by the actions of the Biblical Flood or by continental glaciation. If published, this would have been the first book on this continent, at least, to present a holistic discussion of the controversy in which he presented his critical observations of the surficial geology in Maine, southern New England and New Brunswick, Canada and concluded that these depositional and erosional features must be of glacial origin. DeLaski then incorporated other evidence into the book for glaciation reported by others from the region during a decade or two, and from the mid and far west and Canada to advocate that the entire region was covered by an ice sheet that was at least 5,000 feet and probably much thicker over interior northern U.S. and Canada and which terminated along a glacial margin which extended from southern new England as far westward along the courses of the Ohio, and Missouri Rivers. All this was done while most “naturalists” still advocated the Biblical Flood to explain the major components of the surficial geology in North America and abroad. DeLaski’s book containing his critical observations of clearly so many landscape features of glacial origin, if published would have been a pivotal document that would have strongly supported those arguing for glaciations in the glaciations vs. flood international argument.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Catalogue of the western Scottish fossils by J Armstrong J Young and D Robertson written by James Armstrong (geologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Western Scottish Fossils written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow written by Geological Society of Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine and Monthly Edition of the Living Age written by John Holmes Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie written by J. Betterton and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) was one of the most distinguished and influential geologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, President of the Geological Society of London, President of the British Association, Trustee of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society. He was also an accomplished writer, a masterful lecturer and a talented artist who published over 200 scientific papers, books and articles. The papers in this volume examine aspects of Geikie’s life and works, including his family history, his personal and professional relationships, his art, and his contributions as a field geologist and administrator. Together, they provide a deeper understanding of his life, his career and his contribution to the development of Geology as a scientific discipline. Much of the research is based on primary sources, including previously unpublished manuscripts, donated in part by members of the family to the Haslemere Educational Museum, UK.
Download or read book Modern and Past Glacial Environments written by John Menzies and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-01-02 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book ever prepared on both topics. This text is produced with the student mind, providing accessibility to a complex subject and introducing topics that provide the fundamental underpinnings of knowledge on glaciers, ice sheets, their sediments and landscapes. Modern and Past Glacial Environments features a large collection of photographs, line diagrams and tables and includes examples of glacial environments and landscapes which are drawn from a world wide perspective. Together with a web- based set of current and comprehensive references and bibliographic sources, it provides an ideal reference text. This survey includes coverage of the glaciology, geomorphology and sedimentology of modern glaciers and ice sheets, and the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial environments. Quaternary scientists and students will find this work their first point of reference. Likewise students of Physical Geography, Geology, Earth Science, Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Sciences should find this a useful guide and reference to Glacial Geomorphology and Geology. - Essential new academic version - Highest contributors in their fields - Well reviewed first editions
