The Resource Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
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- Summary
- Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos"" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techn
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Note
- Cover
- Isbn
- 9781400854660
- Label
- Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
- Title
- Controversy in Victorian Geology
- Title remainder
- the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
- Subject
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- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Electronic books
- From 405 to 570 million years ago
- Geology
- Geology
- Geology -- Wales -- History
- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cambrian -- History
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Silurian -- History
- History
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geography
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geology
- SCIENCE -- History
- Silurian Geologic Period
- Stratigraphy
- Wales
- Cambrian Geologic Period
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos"" of the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite intent on subduing the lower orders. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand techn
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Secord, James A
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
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- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Geology
- SCIENCE
- SCIENCE
- SCIENCE
- Cambrian Geologic Period
- Geology
- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Silurian Geologic Period
- Wales
- Geology
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Stratigraphy
- Label
- Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
- Note
- Cover
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn884013540
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400854660
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
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- JSTOR
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- 22573/ctt73bb60
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884013540
- Label
- Controversy in Victorian Geology : the Cambrian-Silurian Dispute
- Note
- Cover
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn884013540
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400854660
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt73bb60
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884013540
Subject
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Electronic books
- From 405 to 570 million years ago
- Geology
- Geology
- Geology -- Wales -- History
- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Cambrian -- History
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Silurian -- History
- History
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geography
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geology
- SCIENCE -- History
- Silurian Geologic Period
- Stratigraphy
- Wales
- Cambrian Geologic Period
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