Walks and Talks in the Geological Field (The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Cirlce)

Winchell, Alexander; Starr, Frederick

Published by Flood and Vincent / The Chautauqua Century Press, 1894

About this Item

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed, boards, edges, and endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper. 1894 Hard Cover. 353 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including an image of an erupting geyser in Yellowstone National Park (though it isn't labeled Old Faithful - the mathematical relationship between the duration and intervals of eruptions would not be described for another 45 years). Includes: The Geology At Our Door; Lost Rocks; The Gravel Pit; Among the Glaciers; The Hillside Spring and Its Work; Introduction to the Rocks; The Floods of the Great Lakes; The Mud Flat; The River Gorge; A Walk Under the Sea; By the Rocky Wall; Mysterious Forms of Life; Courses of the Earth's Masonry; A Walk in the Yellowstone Park; Among the Volcanoes; Frozen Seas of Lava; Imprisoned Heat; The Unstable Land; The Framework of the Mountains; How the Mountain Framework is Reared; Down in a Mine; The King of Metals; The Crystals of the Sea; Liquid Sunlight (Petroleum); Gaseous Sunlight (Natural Gas); Solidified Sunlight (Coal); Monsters of a Buried World; The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands; Lesson From a Lump of Chalk; Lone Burials in the Coal Lands; Terrible Fishes and Their Companions; Ancestry of the Pearly Nautilus; The King Crab's Grandfather and Other Grandfathers; Earth's Deepest Graves; An Earlier Beginning; Gathering World Stuff; The Whirling Fire-Mist; The Primeval Storm; The War in the Ocean; The World Without a Backbone; The Dynasty of Fishes; Scenes From the Coal Period; The Reptile Monarchies; The Mammalian Rule; Anticipation and Retrospect in Life-plans; The Throes of the Continent; The Reign of Ice; A Geologic Spring Time; The Earth Receives Her King.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walks and Talks in the Geological Field (The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Cirlce)
• Publisher: Flood and Vincent / The Chautauqua Century Press
• Publication Date: 1894
• Language: English
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket