Posts on the History of Geology
A PDF compilation
These short essays comprise a compilation of posts on Facebook that I did mostly from about 2016 to 2022. They appeared on my personal Facebook page as well as the History of the Earth page. They are little modified from the original posts, and include my personal observations about the items in my collections on which the posts are based as well as notes about my learning experience in researching them. Consequently, this is a highly personalized and subjective look at the subject, derived from things I actually have. Because of that, it’s rather US-centered, but I hope still interesting. The PDF is about 6 megabytes.
Here are the 22 topics:
Lyell in Spain
Overthrusts in Canada
The Whipple Survey
Joseph Barrell
The 49th Parallel Survey
Darwin’s Petrified Forest
Anticline theory of oil trapping
Florence Bascom
Pillow Basalt
Underground Mapping at Butte
Whipple Survey Part 2
Overthrusts in Wyoming
Chromolithographs
Continental Drift
Charleston Earthquake
Silver Ink as Specular Hematite
Old Red Sandstone
Devil’s Tower
Bisbee and Charles Palache
Iowa 1858
Folios: Eastport, Maine
Baluchistan
What a great resource Richard. Thank you. I didn't know about the process for the reflective hematite. You learn something new every day! Also, my first geology book was a Lyell's Principles. I'll have to check but I think it is a mid-1800s edition (single fat volume).