Principles of Geology Volume 1 An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth s Surface by Reference to Causes now in Operation 1st Edition by Charles Lyell ISBN 978-1108001366 110800136X

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ISBN 10:  110800136X

ISBN 13: 978-1108001366

Author:  Charles Lyell

In 1830–33, Charles Lyell laid the foundations of evolutionary biology with Principles of Geology, a pioneering book that Charles Darwin took with him on the Beagle. Volume 2 (1832) focuses on plants and animals, and consists of 17 chapters, a comprehensive index and woodcut illustrations of various natural habitats Lyell had observed. The author takes issue with the French biologist Lamarck’s theory of the transmutation of species, though Darwin in fact later praised other aspects of Lamarck’s work. Lyell examines the connections between the Earth’s changing crust and the natural history of many species of birds, insects, mammals and fish. He discusses how wild species physically adapt over time to domestication, the diffusion of plants throughout their specific habitats, geographical distributions of certain types of animals, migratory pattern adaptation due to climate change, hybrid plants, species extinction and how organic deposits, such as moss, on emerging land affect species adaptation.

Table of contents: 

1. Geology defined

2. Oriental cosmogony

3. Arabian writers of the tenth century

4. Werner’s application of geology to the art of mining

5. Review of the causes which have retarded the progress of geology

6. Proofs that the climate of the northern hemisphere was formerly hotter

7. On the causes of vicissitudes in climate

8. Geological proofs that the geographical features of the northern hemisphere were such as would give rise to an extremely hot climate

9. Theory of the progressive development of organic life considered

10. Division of the subject into changes of the organic and inorganic world

11. Action of running water, continued

12. Difference between the transporting power of springs and rivers

13. Reproductive effects of running water

14. Oceanic deltas

15. Destroying and transporting effects of tides and currents

16. Action of tides and currents, continued

17. Reproductive effects of tides and currents

18. Division of igneous agents into the volcano and the earthquake

19. History of the volcanic eruptions in the district of Naples

20. Dimensions and structure of the cone of Vesuvius

21. External physiognomy of Etna

22. Volcanic Archipelagos

23. Earthquakes and their effects

24. Earthquake in Calabria, February 5th, 1783

25. Earthquakes of the eighteenth century, continued

26. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the surface.

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