Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but also from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
Dates
- late 19th century
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
1 bundle
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Description
1 bundle
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None
Processing Information
Grant Buttars 07 November 2001
- Alps
- Arctic regions
- Atlantic Ocean
- Belgium
- Bosses (Geology)
- Botany
- Chalk
- Coal
- Continents
- Corals
- Deltas
- Earth Sculpture
- Earth, Crust
- Erosion
- Escarpments
- Europe
- Fjords
- Formations (Geology)
- France
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)
- Geography
- Geological Time
- Geology
- Geology
- Geology, Research
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian
- Geology, Stratigraphic Carboniferous
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cretaeceous
- Geology, Stratigraphic Permian
- Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary
- Glacial Drift
- Glaciation
- Glaciers
- Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States)
- Granite
- Great Britain
- Green River (Wyoming and Utah, United States)
- Highlands Scotland
- Human Beings
- Ice
- Ice Sheets
- Ireland
- Italy
- Lakes
- Lakes, Former
- Landscape
- Lectures and Lecturing
- Limestone
- Mediterranean Sea
- Metamorphism (Geology)
- Microscopy
- Mountains
- Mythology
- Niagra (Ontario, Canada)
- North America
- Ocean bottom
- Old Red Sandstone
- Plains
- Plateaus
- Rhine River
- Rivers
- Rock Types
- Rocks, Igneous
- Rocks, Sedimentary
- Scandinavia
- Scotland
- Subsidences (Earth Movements)
- Sun
- Sutherland Scotland
- Thames, River (England)
- Upheaval
- Volcanic Activity
- Volcanoes
- Wales
- Water
- Waterfalls
- Weald, The (England)
- Wells
- Wye, River (Wales and England)
- Zoology
- silurian
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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