Erosion
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/16
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling him that he is undertaking field work in New Mexico. He is concentrating on the plateau country aided by good topographic maps of the region. He tells Geikie that there are landforms and cliffs similar to those in Utah and Arizona with exposures of Triassic, Permain and Cretaceous strata. These are overlain with evidence of volcanic activity, ancient basalt of 50-200 feet depth on the plateau. Young basalt, in vast lava...
Dates:
21 July 1884
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Samuel Allport, 03 October 1874
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/6/8
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Samuel Allport thanking him for copies of his papers, and telling him that as he had already seen the one on earth sculpture he had passed them on to other parties.
Dates:
03 October 1874
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas George Bonney, 19 December 1873
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/58
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas George Bonney discussing the origin of basins in a glaciated landscape. He refutes the chemical erosion theory and supports the glacier erosion theory. He reports that he has studied the theory of glacial erosion on Alpine scenery in Wales, Scotland, Norway and Switzerland. He asks Geikie if he knows of a rock collector who could get him authenticated specimens of, amongst other locations, Eigg pitchstone. He reports on a field trip to...
Dates:
19 December 1873
Note about a man who recollects the Aoi isthmus being ploughed, 10 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/47
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Note about a man who recollects the Aoi isthmus [Uidh, Tarasaigh/Taransay] being ploughed although it is now 'sand hills and a big strand washed by the sea'.
Dates:
10 July 1870
Notes for lectures given in Dublin, late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/2
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Notes for 2 lectures given in Dublin. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the evolution of scenery around the British Isles. He looked particularly at those elements formed by erosion, such as river valleys, using many locations as examples. He also looked at the formation of tablelands and other geological features and how these have impacted on the people and society in the localities.
Dates:
late 19th century
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
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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...
Dates:
late 19th century
Notes on the burial place at Ceillegridh [Ceilegraigh/Killegray], 13 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/90
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Notes on the burial place at Ceillegridh [Ceilegraigh/Killegray], an island close to Easaigh/Ensay, described as a 'pretty isle with a good house where the factor sometimes lives'. The burying place is noted as being at Ru-an teampuil [Teampull na b' Annait] on the north point of the island 'on a ledge washed by the waves'. There is a small ruin there and the soil is so shallow that 'the coffins rest upon the flat rock. The ends of the grave app[ear] fr[om] the wash away of the...
Dates:
13 July 1870
Notes on the chapels and burial sites on Tarasaigh/Taransay and Stewart of Loscintire [Losgaintir/Luskentyre], 8 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/19
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Notes on the chapels and burial sites on Tarasaigh/Taransay, describing the beauty of Chè Temple [Teampull Chè/St Keith's Chapel], its construction, dimensions and situation and that its graveyard is still a burying place. He describes the stream which separates Cille Chè and Cladh Charain [Cladh Tharain/St Taran's graveyard] as being there in winter but dry in summer 'its bed covered over with docken'. Of St Taran's he notes, 'St Caran ruins by houses above & horse & cattle fanks...
Dates:
8 July 1870
Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-74
Scope and Contents
The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of:
personal, organisational and scientific correspondence
geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours
reprints of his work
miscellaneous lecture notes
student's lecture notes
lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston
proofs for...
Dates:
1851-1921
Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
- 10 boxes of correspondence
- 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
- 24 boxes of offprints of papers
- 294 notebooks
Dates:
1820-1874