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Faults (Geology)

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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists, 1878-1907

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/13/1
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: American geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 67 letters and postcards, alphabetically arranged (1878-1907).
Dates: 1878-1907

Geological Survey notebook 'X X', 1900

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/1/10
Scope and Contents

Drawings and notes on the geology of areas of Scotland, including Aviemore, Inverness, Schehallion and parts of Fife, and to a lesser extent locations around Auvergne, France, with a list of excursionists who went there. References are made to raised beaches at the Firth of Tay, a fault line at St Monans, limeworks at Ceres, erosion near Wormit and necks at St Andrews.

Dates: 1900

Notebook No.112, 11 August 1843-30 August 1843

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/112
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from his travels through Bristol (started in previous notebook, Number 111) and Ireland (continued in following notebook Number 113). It is dated 11-30 August 1843. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily field notes. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-116. Transcription note: The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index",...
Dates: 11 August 1843-30 August 1843

Royal Institution of Great Britain: Syllabus of a Course of Three Lectures on the Origin of Land-Surfaces by Archibald Geikie, FRS, 1867-1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/8/2
Scope and Contents

Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.

Dates: 1867-1868