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The Student's Elements of Geology

by Charles Lyell

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A geology textbook for students, written by Sir Charles Lyell, who also wrote the Principles of Geology and The Antiquity of Man. It sorts rocks into aqueous, volcanic, plutonic and metamorphic kinds, then takes up stratification, the arrangement of fossils in strata, how sediment hardens and plant and animal remains turn to stone, the raising of strata above the sea, folds and faults, and denudation. More than 600 wood engravings illustrate the text. This edition was printed in New York in 1878.

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Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell (1797-1875) was a Scottish lawyer turned geologist whose work established uniformitarianism, the view that the earth's past can be read from processes visible in the present. A friend and mentor to Darwin, he pressed the case for an ancient earth long before he accepted evolution himself.

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