 GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and...  HAND-BOOK OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS; - Page 265by GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1973 - 564 pages
...11TERATURE Primary Literature GEOLOGY DEF1NED Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...the surface and external structure of our planet. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, 7th ed., 1ohn Murray. London. 1847, p. 1. Geology as a modern... | |
 | J.D. North, J.J. Roche - History - 1985 - 484 pages
...history part of the definition of geology: Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature: it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt - Mineral lands - 1979 - 786 pages
...history. In 1830, Charles Lyell pointed out that "Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 294 pages
...the opening sentence of the Principles that "Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature" (1:1). Geological periods can be differentiated and arranged without abandoning a steady-state view... | |
 | Glenn S. Visher - Business & Economics - 1999 - 720 pages
...in terms of modem depositional processes. Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic...which they have exerted in modifying the surface and structure of our planet. (Lyell, 1830). Louis Agassiz, a Swiss geologist, fundamentally changed the... | |
 | Charles Hepworth Holland, Michael G. Bassett - Nature - 2002 - 216 pages
...keystone of the science. Lyell wrote that: 'Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature', yet he did not grasp the one major issue which remained to be faced, the development of the theory... | |
 | Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...Geology (1830-33) From volume one, chapter one: GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
 | Randy Allen Harris - Science - 2005 - 598 pages
...indicates the range of its subject matter: Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; in enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1873 - 914 pages
...instance: Sir Charles Lyell tells us truly that "Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the... | |
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