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A brief history of geology /

O'Hara, Kieran D.,

A brief history of geology / Kieran D. O'Hara, University of Kentucky. - xi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approximately 200 years of the history of the development of the study of geology. Includes brief biographies of the following: James Hutton (1726-1797), Abraham Werner (1749-1817), Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), William Smith (1769-1839), William Buckland (1784-1856), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), William Conybeare (1787-1857), Roderick Murchison (1792-1871), Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Charles Darwin (1809-1882).



9781107176188 (hbk.) : £24.99 9781316628294 (pbk.) 9781316809990 ebk

2017051822


Geology--History.
Geologists--Biography.

QE11 / .O33 2018

551.09