Siluria

The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold over the Earth

By:

Roderick Impey Murchison

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

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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.

Release date Australia

January 2nd, 2014

Author

Roderick Impey Murchison

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

37 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps; 146 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

624

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

Dimensions

140x216x35

ISBN-13

9781108067195

Product ID

21665712

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