Geology for EverymanFirst published in 1943, this was the last book of the eminent botanist and geologist Sir Albert Seward, who completed the manuscript three days before his death in 1941. The book was intended to be a useful and simply worded guide to geology for the general reader. Seward wished to emphasise the attraction which an understanding of geology could afford to anyone who enjoys a walk over the countryside. After a preliminary survey of the essentials of geology, the book then proceeds as a series of journeys through the British Isles, bringing the geological history and features of various regions under review. |
Contents
Geology as a Hobby | 1 |
Earths Storybook | 14 |
Destruction and Reconstruction | 28 |
Rocks | 42 |
The Distribution of Rocks over the Surface of Britain | 58 |
Medals of Creation | 76 |
An Arctic Britain | 87 |
From the Glacial period to Britain as it is | 114 |
Estuaries Lakes and Seas from the cliffs of Yorkshire to the coast of Dorset | 182 |
Salt Lakes and Deserts | 197 |
Forest Delta and Sea | 207 |
Northern Lakes and a Southern Sea | 228 |
The Older Palaeozoic Seas | 240 |
The End of the Journey | 258 |
The Procession of Life | 272 |
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animals and plants arctic blocks boulder clay Britain British Isles calcareous Cambrian Carboniferous Chalk Chapter cliffs climate coal coast containing corals covered Cretaceous Cretaceous period crystalline Cycads deposits Devonian district earth's crust east England estuary evidence examples exposed extinct farther flora flowering plants folded forests fossils fresh-water genera genus geological history geologists Glacial glaciers gneiss granite Greenland ground hills Ice Age ice-sheet igneous island Jurassic kinds known lakes land lava layers lime limestone living London Clay lower marine mass material miles million Millstone Grit molten mountain northern occur ocean Old Red Sandstone oldest Ordovician origin Palaeozoic peat Pennine Permian pre-Cambrian present reached regions river sand sandy Scotland sea-floor sediment sedimentary beds sedimentary rocks shale sheets shells Silurian southern species stage stems stone structure surface Tertiary thick tion trees Triassic tropical valleys vegetation volcanic Wales Wealden Yorkshire