Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.
Dates
- Creation: 1884
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
2 parts
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Description
2 parts
Processing Information
None
Processing Information
Grant Buttars 31 October 2001
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Avon, River (Gloucestershire-Avon, England)
- Baltic Sea
- Belgium
- Brecon (Wales)
- Bristol Channel
- Cheshire (England)
- Clwyd (Wales)
- Clyde River Valley (Scotland)
- Coal
- Coastal Landforms
- Cork Ireland
- Cotswold Hills (England)
- County Donegal Ireland
- Dover, Strait of
- Drainage
- Dykes (Geology)
- Dykes (Geology)
- Earth Movements
- England
- English Channel
- Erosion
- Escarpments
- Europe
- France
- Galway (Ireland)
- Geological Time
- Geology
- Germany
- Granite
- Great Glen (Scotland)
- Hebrides (Scotland)
- Hebrides (Scotland)
- Highlands Scotland
- Humber, River (England)
- Ice Sheets
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Irish Sea Europe
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Kerry (Ireland)
- Lake District (England)
- Landscape
- Laws, Geological
- Lectures and Lecturing
- Loch Maree Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Loch Tay (Scotland)
- Lomond, Loch (Scotland)
- Mayo (Ireland : County)
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mountains
- Nith River (Scotland)
- Norfolk (England)
- North America
- North Sea
- Ocean bottom
- Old Red Sandstone
- Pennine Chain (England)
- Plains
- Plateaus
- Ravines
- Rock Types
- Scandinavia
- Scotland
- Severn River (Wales and England)
- Shannon River (Ireland)
- Shropshire (England)
- Snowdon (Wales)
- Submergence
- Subsidences (Earth Movements)
- Suffolk (England)
- Sutherland Scotland
- Tay River (Scotland)
- Thames, River (England)
- Trent, River (England)
- Upheaval
- Usk River (Wales)
- Volcanic Activity
- Volcanic Fields
- Volcanoes
- Wales
- Wye, River (Wales and England)
- Yorkshire (England)
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Subject
Repository Details
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk