Principles of Geology, Volume 2, Bind 2University of Chicago Press, 1990 - 352 sider 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 the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I—the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean—but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes. Volume II is widely known because of its influence on Darwin, who took the book on his famous Beagle voyage and was stimulated by Lyell's extensive treatment of biological history and diversity. |
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Side viii
... regions of indigenous mammalia - Quadrupeds in islands - Range of the Cetacea - Dissemination of quadrupeds - Their powers of swimming - Migratory instincts - Drifting of quadrupeds on ice - floes - On floating islands of drift - timber ...
... regions of indigenous mammalia - Quadrupeds in islands - Range of the Cetacea - Dissemination of quadrupeds - Their powers of swimming - Migratory instincts - Drifting of quadrupeds on ice - floes - On floating islands of drift - timber ...
Side ix
... region causes the chief disturbance - Changes known to have resulted from the advance of human population - Whether man ... regions must occasion the extinction of species - Effects of a general alteration of climate on the migration of ...
... region causes the chief disturbance - Changes known to have resulted from the advance of human population - Whether man ... regions must occasion the extinction of species - Effects of a general alteration of climate on the migration of ...
Side x
... regions - Why the vegetable soil does not augment in thickness - Organic matter drifted annually to the sea , and buried in subaqueous strata - Loss of nourishment from this source , how supplied - The theory , that vegetation is an ...
... regions - Why the vegetable soil does not augment in thickness - Organic matter drifted annually to the sea , and buried in subaqueous strata - Loss of nourishment from this source , how supplied - The theory , that vegetation is an ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 18 |
CHAPTER III | 36 |
CHAPTER IV | 49 |
CHAPTER V | 66 |
CHAPTER VI | 87 |
CHAPTER VII | 105 |
CHAPTER VIII | 123 |
CHAPTER X | 158 |
CHAPTER XI | 176 |
CHAPTER XII | 185 |
CHAPTER XIII | 209 |
CHAPTER XIV | 228 |
CHAPTER XV | 239 |
CHAPTER XVI | 253 |
CHAPTER XVII | 272 |
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