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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 this third and final volume, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) devotes much attention to the syntax of geology, that is, to a way of reconstructing the geological past on the basis of the grammar of the present processes he has described in the earlier volumes. He defines four periods of the Tertiary--Newer Pliocene, Older Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene--and argues that the deposits dating from each period demonstrate the uniformity of processes and environments throughout the Tertiary, and indeed in earlier periods of earth history. Martin J. S. Rudwick has compiled a bibliography giving full references for the sources Lyell cites in all three volumes of the Principles.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Geology & the lithosphere

• Full title: Principles of Geology, Volume 3
• Author: Charles Lyell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 602
• EAN: 9780226497990
• ISBN: 0226497992
• ID: 04547100
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 722 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 143 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1992

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