Publisher's Synopsis
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY, WITH A SERIES OF ESSAYS TO SHOW THAT THE MONUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT STATE OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS, WHICH THIS SCIENCE INTERPRETS, CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD BY A PREVIOUS ACQUAINTANCE WITH TERRESTRIAL CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS, BOTH IN THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WORLDS.
Contain:
- Aqueous causes-Excavating and transporting power of rivers
- Carrying power of river-ice-Glaciers and Icebergs
- Phenomena of springs
- Reproductive effects of rivers-Deltas of lakes and inland seas
- Deltas of the Mississippi, Ganges, and other rivers exposed to tidal action
