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Volcanoes

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE Updated for = Charles Lyell Project 2020

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on Canaries & Madeira with Hartung, May - June 1855

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 59-76
Scope and Contents

Notes - including sketches - of a visit to the Canary Isles and Madeira with Georg Hartung, to look at the geological formations caused by volcanoes on the islands. TNotes on trip to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with James Tennant to look at minerals. Index of notes on Madeira & the Canaries with G. Hartung. May-June 1855 - also refers to page numbers in Notebook 203.

Dates: May - June 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Notes on Madeira, October - November 1855

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 153-164
Scope and Contents

Original packaging marked '6''C. Lyell Notes on Madeira Oct[ober] - Nov[ember] 1855
4 points stated:
1. Rain washing down red clay [?Po. Cadro Antonio]
2. Slickenside & Laterite Lava
3. Drivers book lent by Wollaston notes from
4. Intrusion lava, Giran [sic Girão].
Also, Index to Hartung's MS on Madeira. October-November 1855.

Dates: October - November 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands