Siluria : the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains, with a brief sketch of the distribution of gold over the earth
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Siluria : the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains, with a brief sketch of the distribution of gold over the earth
(Cambridge library collection, . Earth sciences)
Cambridge University Press, c2014
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Murray , 1854
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) first proposed the Silurian period after studying ancient rocks in Wales in the 1830s. Naming the sequence after the Silures, a Celtic tribe, he believed that the fossils representing the origins of life could be attributed to this period. This assertion sparked a heated dispute with his contemporary Adam Sedgwick, ultimately ruining their friendship. First published in 1854, Siluria is a significant reworking of Murchison's earlier book, The Silurian System, which had appeared in 1839. Thorough in his approach, he combines his own findings with those of researchers around the world, touching also on the later Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods as well as questions of natural history. An important text in nineteenth-century geology and palaeontology, the work contains a valuable geological map of Wales along with detailed engravings of fossils, including crustaceans, cephalopods and fish.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Base of the Silurian rocks
- 3. Lower Silurian rocks
- 4. Lower Silurian rocks (cont.)
- 5. Upper Silurian rocks
- 6. Upper Silurian rocks (cont.)
- 7. Silurian rocks of Britain
- 8. Organic remains of the lower Silurian rocks
- 9. Fossils of the upper Silurian rocks
- 10. The Devonian rocks, or old red sandstone
- 11. Carboniferous rocks
- 12. Permian rocks
- 13. General view of the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of Scandinavia and Russia
- 14. Primeval succession in Germany and Belgium
- 15. Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of France, Spain, Portugal, and Sardinia
- 16. Succession of primeval rocks in America
- 17. On the original formation of gold
- 18. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index
- Plates.
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