Geological sketches
By: by L. Agassiz
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Geology; Glaciers
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Table of contents: title: America the old world.; title: II. The Silurian beach.; title: III. The fern forests of the Carboniferous period.; title: IV. Mountains and their origin.; title: V. The growth of continents.; title: VI. The geological middle age.; title: VII. The Tertiary age and its characteristic animals.; title: VIII. The formation of glaciers.; title: IX. Internal structure and progression of glaciers.; title: X. External appearance of glaciers.