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A popular survey of geological science explaining how the planet's shape and surface have been moulded by weathering, rivers, seas, ice, earthquakes, volcanism, and rock-forming processes. It follows earth history from early formation through successive geological periods, uses fossil evidence to describe prehistoric animal life in reptilian and mammalian eras, and explains how coal beds and chalk deposits formed. The text also examines the causes and effects of earthquakes and volcanoes, considers the Ice Age and its legacies, and concludes with the emergence of humans within the geological record.

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Title: The Romance of Modern Geology

Author: Edwin Sharpe Grew

Illustrator: Joseph Smit

Alice B. Woodward

Release date: May 10, 2021 [eBook #65307]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROMANCE OF MODERN GEOLOGY ***

THE ROMANCE OF
MODERN GEOLOGY

Megalosaurus
Total length about 25 feet.
(Remains found in England, France, South Africa, and India.)

THE ROMANCE OF
MODERN GEOLOGY

DESCRIBING IN SIMPLE BUT EXACT
LANGUAGE THE MAKING OF THE
EARTH WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF
PREHISTORIC ANIMAL LIFE

BY

E. S. GREW, M.A.

EDITOR OF "KNOWLEDGE"
AUTHOR OF "THE FAR EAST" &C., &C.

WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED
38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET
1909

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

THE LIBRARY OF ROMANCE

Extra Crown 8vo. With many illustrations. 5s. each

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By Prof. G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A., B.Sc.
THE ROMANCE OF SAVAGE LIFE
THE ROMANCE OF PLANT LIFE
THE ROMANCE OF EARLY BRITISH LIFE

By EDWARD GILLIAT, M.A.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN SIEGES

By JOHN LEA, M.A.
THE ROMANCE OF BIRD LIFE

By JOHN LEA, M.A., & H. COUPIN, D.Sc.
THE ROMANCE OF ANIMAL ARTS AND CRAFTS

By SIDNEY WRIGHT
THE ROMANCE OF THE WORLD'S FISHERIES

By the Rev. J. C. LAMBERT, M.A., D.D.
THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONARY HEROISM

By G. FIRTH SCOTT
THE ROMANCE OF POLAR EXPLORATION

By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, B.A. (Oxon.), F.R.G.S.
THE ROMANCE OF EARLY EXPLORATION
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN EXPLORATION
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN INVENTION
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN ENGINEERING
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN LOCOMOTION
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MINING

By CHARLES R. GIBSON, A.I.E.E.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN ELECTRICITY

By EDMUND SELOUS
THE ROMANCE OF THE ANIMAL WORLD
THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE

By AGNES GIBERNE
THE ROMANCE OF THE MIGHTY DEEP

By E. S. GREW, M.A.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN GEOLOGY

SEELEY & CO., LIMITED

Grateful acknowledgment is due to Mr. Henry R. Knipe for his kind permission to reproduce some of the illustrations of extinct animals contained in his scholarly work entitled, From Nebula to Man (J. M. Dent and Co.).