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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2012
      October 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511702167
      9781108021159
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511702167
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      (297 x 210 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 150 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    William Smith (1768–1839) was a civil engineer and canal surveyor known as the 'Father of Geology' who developed and pioneered the concept of stratigraphy. Through his work with canal building Smith become familiar with many different types of rock throughout Britain. He realized that fossils were specific to a certain strata of rock and that rock strata could be identified and correlated by the fossils they contained. Smith used this knowledge to publish the renowned first geological map of Britain in 1815. This volume, first published in 1817, contains Smith's catalogue of his fossil collection for the British Museum. Smith catalogues the fossils according to the rock strata and location in which they were found, together with a brief description of the fossil. This volume was the first published example of rock strata used as a cataloguing principle which demonstrated the practical nature of Smith's system of stratigraphy.

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