The Geological sciences in the antebellum South
By: edited by James X. Corgan.
Contributors: Corgan, James X.; Geological Society of America. Southeastern Section.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: University, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Geology -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [171]-185.
Papers originally presented at a symposium held during a Southeastern sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Birmingham, March 1980.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Andrew Ellicott's geological observations in the Mississippi Valley and Florida in 1796-1800 / George W. White; title: South Carolina state geological surveys of the nineteenth century / Anne Millbrooke; title: Early American geological surveys and Gerard Troost's field assistants, 1831-1836 / James X. Corgan; title: Mineral fertilizers in Southern agriculture / Richard C. Sheridan; title: William Barton Rogers and the Virginia Geological Survey, 1835-1842 / Michele L. Aldrich and Alan E. Leviton; title: Southern influences on the career of Joseph Nicollet / Martha Coleman Bray; title: Antebellum geological surveys in Kentucky and their contribution to the Shaler surveys of the 1870s / Ivan L. Zabilka; title: Charles Lyell's observations on southeastern geology / Daniel D. Arden; title: The second geological career of Ebenezer Emmons / Markes E. Johnson.