Geology, Stratigraphic
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 17 January 1881
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/6
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, thanking him for his articles on weathering and postulating that the Grand Canyon was formed in this manner, and that he is preparing a section concerning this for Geikie's manual. He recommends William Henry Holmes' topographical drawings of the Grand Canyon and reports that photolithographs are being prepared. He gives details of the depths of the individual geological stratifications which can be observed at the Grand...
Dates:
17 January 1881
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Barrow, 20 October 1888
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/26
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from George Barrow concerning Geikie's wish to investigate the grounds for Barrow's assertion that the Loch Tay limestone and the Blair Atholl series are not on the same horizontal plane. He recommends that Geikie start his investigation at the Spital of Glenshee and recommends some accommodation there. Barrow lists the ascending stratigraphy which Geikie should observe, with additional notes on some of the apparant features. He offers to take Geikie over the...
Dates:
20 October 1888
Letters from Etheridge R, to Charles Lyell, November 1863-19 October 1874
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/74
Scope and Contents
Lyell summarises these letters as:
1) Caelohynchus & Williamson's criticism November 1863 - includes sketch
2) Etheridge Pleurotomaria December 1863 - includes sketch
3) No summary, envelope stamped with Museum of Practical Geology and letter replies to Lyell's questions on the museum's collections
4) Crag section at Walton with 2 coloured annotated stratigraphic illustrations
5) Etheridge on Mr. Torrell's Swedish Cambrian plants being sponges
6)...
Dates:
November 1863-19 October 1874
Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 1843-1879
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1
Scope and Contents
The Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay sub-series consists of:
- 14 letters from a variety of European correspondents concerning geological papers and research (1843-1879).
Dates:
1843-1879
Minutes volume 2, 11 December 1830-16 April 1858
Item
Identifier: Coll-206/1/2
Scope and Contents
Bound volume containing numbered pages. Sessions 24 to the final session, 44, are minuted including: details of nominations for and ratifications of membership, business matters, plans for a bust of Robert Jameson and final business matters including disbanding the membership and settling affairs. Details of titles and abstract content of all papers read to the society are minuted. These include: a description of Greenockite, and a paper on stratification of primitive rocks by...
Dates:
11 December 1830-16 April 1858
Notebook No.192, February 1854
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/192
Scope and Contents
This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. This notebook is from February 1854 and covers Charles Lyell’s travels around the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo with specific notes on Sao Vicente, Curral das Freiras, Pico Santo, Santo António, Pico Ruivo, Funchal, Pico Grande, Câmara de Lobos, Boqueirão, Santa Cruz, Porto Novo, Pico dos Bodes, Caminho do Pico da...
Dates:
February 1854