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The History and Escription of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, and Coal Trade of Great Britain
The History and Escription of Fossil Fuel the Collieries and Coal Trade of Great Britain Author:John Holland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: Whittaker Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. GEOLOGICAL THEORIES. Interesting character of Geological Science -- Extent of knowledge required for successful investigation -- Controversies and conflicting tJteories -- Important connexion between Geology and Revelation -- Question of progressive developement of Species -- Hut- ton and Werner -- Subterranean temperature -- Paroxysmal and Cataclysmal Eras of MM. Beaumont, Brongniart, and Cuvier -- Jameson's Remarks -- Mineral and Mosaical Geologies contrasted -- Fairholme -- Theory of Werner -- Tabular view of the positions of Strata -- Formations -- Gradation of Fossils of vegetable origin. JL HE science of Geology, a science still in its infancy, has been pursued of late years with an ardour commensurate to the importance of its bearings in relation to the physical structure of the earth, no less than as developing a series of phenomena of the most striking and interesting character. Nor is the study of this comprehensive subject at present confined in its scientific attractions to divines and philosophers on the one hand, nor on the other hand is it left to miners and metallurgists alone to estimate its practical importance. It has become essential to a liberal education, that a man know something of the stratification of the globe upon which he lives, and to the fossil and mineral riches of which he is so largely indebted. Even under the softer designation of an accomplishment, some acquaintance with the principles of Geology is not unfrequently acquired by individuals of both sexes as a source of elegant intellectual recreation. Formerly, indeed, the ...« less