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Geological Mapping

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Ernest Favre, 20 February 1875

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/9
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Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Ernest Favre who is sending him a copy of a geological work he has just completed on a range of mountains in the central area of Caucasus in Russia. He states that he has added many more routes/tracks to the original map designed by Frederic Dubois de Montpereux. His father, Alphonse Favre, has suggested that he approach Ramsay in the first instance to present the work to the Geological Society of London.

Dates: 20 February 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 01 April 1880

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/3
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton thanking him for a list of possible recipients for his monograph [ Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah, with Atlas, ( 1880) ]. He gives an account of the United States Geological Survey plans for the coming year. He states that they are going to concentrate on economic geology and geological mapping. He outlines the geographical location and personnel involved with every project. He...
Dates: 01 April 1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edward William Binney, 14 April 1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/51
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edward William Binney telling Geikie that the forthcoming geological map and cross section of the Edinburgh and Linlithgow coal field will be a useful addition to the geological literature.

Dates: 14 April 1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George James Allman, 28 December 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/6/5
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George James Allman asking permission to make a copy, for his classroom, of a large unpublished map which Geikie has sent him. He discusses the contents of the map. He asks for clarification concerning the differences in rock types indicated between this map and a previous sketch map which is in his possession.

Dates: 28 December 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: W[illiam] G[rylls] Adams to Paul Apfelstedt

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from H Arnold Bemrose, 10 September 1897

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/39
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from H Arnold Bemrose congratulating him on his book The ancient volcanoes of Great Britain, ( 1897) . He reports that he has not found any basalt rock while undertaking geological mapping in Derbyshire but has photographs and thin sections of bedded ash. He reports that his work is 3 months behind due to a knee injury but he is now recovered. He remarks that he is glad to see the Annual Report of the Geological Survey in print but...
Dates: 10 September 1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro, 10 February 1858

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Identifier: Coll-203/4/14
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro answering a list of questions that Lyell had evidently posed to him in a previous letter. Topics covered include volcanic strata, inaccuracies in maps of the area around Mount Etna drawn by Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen, and Lyell's theory that the 2 craters of Mount Etna were contemporary. Gemmellaro disputes this theory as each crater ejected different types of rock, Felspatic and Pyroxenic, with no mixing of the two. Gemmellaro...
Dates: 10 February 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of Mount Etna

Lochs Eport and Maddy, c1877

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/9/6
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To an 1865 reprint of the map created from a survey of 1859, covering parts of North Uist, minor annotations have been added.

Dates: c1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Hydrographic Maps

Map of Lewis, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/10
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Geologically annotated map of the Isle of Lewis.

Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

Map of Montana and Wyoming Territories, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/12
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Map of Montana and Wyoming Territories, embracing most of the country drained by the Madison, Gallatin and Upper Yellowstone rivers. Geology by FV Hayden, assisted by AC Peale. Drawn by Henry Gannett from notes and sketches by Adolph Bruck, chief topographer of the Yellowstone Division of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories.

Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Boston lectures

Map of Snake River, c1879

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Identifier: Coll-74/6/11
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Map of the Snake River, with its tributaries together with portions of the headwaters of Madison and Yellowstone, surveyed by the Snake River Expedition (Gustavus R Bechler, chief topographer and James Stevenson, director) of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories.

Dates: c1879
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Boston lectures

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