On the Geological Structure of the Alps, Apennines and Carpathians

by Roderick Impey Murchison

Book Overview

Few men were better placed to produce an authoritative study of Continental geology than Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), President of the Geological Society and the Royal Geographical Society of London. Having conducted extensive fieldwork alongside Adam Sedgwick, in 1847 Murchison set out on a study tour that would change the manner in which geology was understood and debated. Delivered before the Geological Society and published in their Quarterly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108072569
• ISBN13: 9781108072564
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"