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02733aam a2200385 i 4500 001 DF86B232E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 210302t20212021enkab b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1788163788 020 $a 9781788163781 020 $a 178816377X 020 $a 9781788163774 035 $a (OCoLC)1242739166 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OSU $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a QE11 D38 2021 100 1 $a Davidson, Nick, $d 1971?- $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 2021. 300 $a 8 unnumbered pages, 280 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 520 $a "Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a school teacher. 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 Palaeozoic 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"--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Sedgwick, Adam, $d 1785-1873. 600 10 $a Murchison, Roderick Impey, $c Sir, $d 1792-1871. 600 10 $a Lapworth, Charles. 650 0 $a Geologists $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Geology $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Geology $z Great Britain. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781782836261 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103011315.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF86B232E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search