Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Dates
- Creation: 1886
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Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
1 bundle
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Description
1 bundle
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None
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Grant Buttars 05 November 2001
- Alps
- Armagh (Northern Ireland : County)
- Arran Buteshire Scotland
- Ayrshire Scotland
- Banffshire Scotland
- Basalt
- Berwickshire (Scotland)
- Bosses (Geology)
- Botany
- Bristol Channel
- Buckie (Scotland)
- Campsie (Scotland)
- Cornwall England
- County Antrim Northern Ireland
- County Donegal Ireland
- Derbyshire (England)
- Devon England
- Dumbarton Dunbartonshire Scotland
- Dykes (Geology)
- Erosion
- Europe
- Fintry (Scotland)
- Formations (Geology)
- Fossils
- Garlton Hills (Scotland)
- Geography
- Geological Time
- Geology, Stratigraphic Archaean
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian
- Geology, Stratigraphic Carboniferous
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cretaeceous
- Geology, Stratigraphic Devonian
- Geology, Stratigraphic Jurassic
- Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary
- Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic
- Geology, Structural
- Great Britain
- Great Glen (Scotland)
- Hebrides (Scotland)
- Ireland
- Isle of Bute Buteshire Scotland
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Mull Argyllshire Scotland
- Lake District (England)
- Lakes
- Lakes, Former
- Lanarkshire (Scotland)
- Largo Largo Scotland
- Lava Flows
- Limerick (Ireland : County)
- Moon
- Moray Firth (Scotland)
- Necks (Geology)
- Ness, Loch (Scotland)
- Nithsdale (Scotland)
- Norway
- Ochil Hills (Scotland)
- Old Red Sandstone
- Orcadie, Lake (Orkney, Scotland)
- Pembrokeshire (Wales)
- Pentland Hills (Scotland)
- Plateaus
- Renfrewshire Scotland
- Reptiles
- Roxburghshire
- Russia
- Scandinavia
- Scotland
- Shetland (Scotland)
- Sidlaw Hills (Scotland)
- Sills (Geology)
- Snowdon (Wales)
- Spain
- Strathbogie (Scotland)
- Vents, Volcanic
- Volcanic Activity
- Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.
- Volcanoes
- Volcanoes (Extinction)
- Wales
- Zoology
- silurian
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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