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Geology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Grande Canaria, 1855

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 185-196
Scope and Contents

Handwritten article on the geology of Grande [sic Gran] Canaria and the way in which the rocks were formed. Seeming to be a summary of Lyell's observations while on the island, 1855 - it is not in his handwriting, and is perhaps written by Mary Lyell, or Georg Hartung.

Dates: 1855

On the Geological Structure of the Madeiran Islands, 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 506-640
Scope and Contents

On the Geological Structure of the Madeiran Islands by Sir Charles Lyell and Georg Hartung which is a summary of their observations during a visit to the Madeiran Islands in the winter of 1853-1854 and to three Canary islands, La Palma, Teneriffe and Grand Canary, in the Spring of 1854, with diagrams, 1856.

Dates: 1856