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Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution'

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GB 0237 Sir Archibald Geikie Gen. 522/4/1

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late 19th century

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bundle

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Geikie | Sir | Archibald | 1835-1924 | professor of geology, University of Edinburgh

Scope and Content

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 also from Europe and elsewhere around the world.

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Geikie | Sir | Archibald | 1835-1924 | professor of geology, University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Division
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution'
Item Summary
Reference Code	GB 0237 Sir Archibald Geikie Gen. 522/4/1
Date(s)	late 19th century
Extent and medium of the unit of description	1 bundle
Name of creator	Geikie \| Sir \| Archibald \| 1835-1924 \| professor of geology, University of Edinburgh
Scope and Content
Scope and Content	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 also from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
Index
Subjects	Bosses (Geology) Botany Chalk Continents Coal Corals Deltas Deposition and Sedimentation Earth, Crust Earth Sculpture Erosion Escarpments Granite Landscape Fjords Formations (Geology) Geography Geological Time Geology Geology, Research Geology Stratigraphic Cambrian Geology, Stratigraphic Carboniferous Geology, Stratigraphic, Cretaeceous Geology, Stratigraphic Permian Geology, Stratigraphic Silurian Geology, Stratigraphic, Tertiary Glacial Drift Glaciation Glaciers Human Beings Ice Ice Sheets Lakes Lakes, Former Lectures and Lecturing Limestone Metamorphism (Geology) Microscopy Mountains Mythology Ocean bottom Old Red Sandstone Plains Plateaus Rivers Rocks, Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rock Types Subsidences (Earth Movements) Sun Upheaval Valleys Volcanic Activity Volcanoes Water Waterfalls Wells Zoology
People	Geikie \| Sir \| Archibald \| 1835-1924 \| professor of geology, University of Edinburgh
Places	Alps Atlantic Ocean Arctic regions Belgium Europe France Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States) Great Britain Green River (Wyoming and Utah, United States) Highlands (Scotland) Ireland Italy Mediterranean Sea Niagra (Ontario, Canada) North America Rhine River Scandinavia Scotland Sutherland (Scotland) Thames River (England) Wales Weald, The (England) Wye, River (Wales and England)
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