Text-Book of Geology (In 2 Volumes)

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In preparing the present edition of this Text-Book, every section of it abreast of the onward march of Geological Science. Some portions have been recast or rewritten; others have been largely augmented by the incorporation of the results of the latest researches, while between thirty and forty illustrations have been added. As the new material thus supplied amounts to 300 pages, the work has now been divided, for more convenient use, into two volumes; but to facilitate reference their pagination has been made continuous. So uninterrupted, however, is the progress of investigation, that since the sheets of most of the book were successively printed off, various valuable memoirs have appeared of which it has not been possible to make use. As in previous editions, copious references have been inserted to sources of more ample information in each branch of the science. A detailed table of contents for the whole work is placed at the beginning of the first volume, while the index of subjects at the end of the second volume has been made as full as the requirements of the student seemed to demand. These requirements have been further kept in view by the insertion of numerous cross references, which it is hoped will enable the reader more easily to follow up any desired path through the various sections of geological enquiry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sir Archibald Geikie

Sir Archibald Geikie, (b. Dec. 28, 1835, Edinburgh, Scot.—d. Nov. 10, 1924, Haslemere, Surrey, Eng.), British geologist who became the foremost advocate of the fluvial theories of erosion. His prolific book writing made him very influential in his time.In 1855 Geikie was appointed to the Geological Survey of Great Britain, under Sir Roderick I. Murchison. Ten years later he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and, when a separate branch of the Geological Survey was established for Scotland in 1867, Geikie became its director. In 1871 he became the first Murchison professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh.In 1882 Geikie became director general of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and he immediately reorganized and increased the survey work, which had lagged under the previous director. He served as president of the Geological Society of London (1891–92 and 1906–08) and of the Royal Society (1908–13). He was knighted in 1891.His best-known works are The Scenery of Scotland (1865, 3rd ed. 1901), Life of Sir R.I. Murchison (1875), Text-Book of Geology (1882, 4th ed. 1903), The Founders of Geology (1897, 2nd ed. 1905), The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain (1897), and Outlines of Field Geology (1876, 5th ed. 1900).