TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The greywacke : how a priest, a soldier and a schoolteacher uncovered 300 million years of history
A1  - Davidson, Nick, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London, England
PB  - Profile Books
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5624197
AB  - Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Devon and parts of western Russia, that revealed the narrative structure of the Palaeozoic Era, the 300-million-year period during which life on Earth became recognisably itself. Nick Davidson follows in their footsteps and draws on maps, diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts to bring the ideas and characters alive. But this is more than a history of geology. As we travel through some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain, it's a celebration of the sheer visceral pleasure generations of geologists have found, and continue to find, in noticing the earth beneath our feet --Publisher's description.
SN  - 978-1-78816-378-1 pehmeäkantinen
SN  - 978-1-78816-377-4 kovakantinen
SN  - 178816377X kovakantinen
KW  - Sedgwick, Adam, : 1785-1873.
KW  - Murchison, Roderick Impey, : Sir, : 1792-1871.
KW  - Lapworth, Charles.
KW  - 1800-luku
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - historia
KW  - geologia
KW  - geologit
KW  - Geologists : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Geology : Great Britain : History : 19th century.
KW  - Geology : Great Britain.
KW  - Geologists.
KW  - Geology.
KW  - Iso-Britannia
KW  - Great Britain.
ER  -