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03044aam a2200373 i 4500 001 14F0ADEC933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 210827t20222021enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781788163781 020 $a 1788163788 035 $a (OCoLC)1265345223 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d QGJ $d AU@ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a QE11 D38 2022 100 1 $a Davidson, Nick, $d 1971?- $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014010647 $e author. 245 14 $a The Greywacke : $b how a priest, a soldier and a schoolteacher uncovered 300 million years of history / $c Nick Davidson. 264 1 $a London : $b Profile Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 280 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 20 cm 505 0 $a Introduction -- The erratic Professor Sedgwick -- The ambititious Mr Murchison -- Trekking through Wales, 1832-3 -- A new history: the Cambrian and Silurian, 1834-5 -- The Devonian Controversy, 1835-40 -- Stumbling on the Permian in Russia, 1840-42 -- Siluria v. Cambria, 1841-52 -- From collaboration to rivalry, 1852-5 -- The Highland conspiracy: Siluria in Sctoland, 1855-73 -- The missing key: discovery of the Ordovician, 1864-84 -- The final mystery. 500 $a Includes index. 520 3 $a "Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and intellectual rivalry, pursued on treks through Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Devon and parts of western Russia, that revealed the narrative structure of the Paleozoic Era, the 300-million-year period during which life on Earth became recognisably itself. Nick Davidson follows in their footsteps and draws on maps, diaries, letters, field notes and contemporary accounts to bring the ideas and characters alive. But this is more than a history of geology. As we travel through some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain, it's a celebration of the sheer visceral pleasure generations of geologists have found, and continue to find, in noticing the earth beneath our feet."-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Sedgwick, Adam, $d 1785-1873. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83135443 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000081437562 600 10 $a Murchison, Roderick Impey, $c Sir, $d 1792-1871. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87825882 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000121311797 600 10 $a Lapworth, Charles. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007053515 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000047168100. 650 0 $a Geologists $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Geology $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Geology $z Great Britain. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117925 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781782836261 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012050.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14F0ADEC933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search