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  3. Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison
    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    September 2011
    June 2011
    ISBN:
    9780511973123
    9781108072359
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973123
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.52kg, 412 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871) was an influential Scottish geologist best known for his classification of Palaeozoic rocks into the Silurian system. After early military experience in the Peninsular War, he resigned his commission; a chance meeting with Sir Humphrey Davy led him subsequently to pursue a scientific career. The Silurian System, published in 1839, was a highly influential study, which established the oldest contemporary classification of fossil-bearing strata. Murchison was appointed President of the Royal Geographical Society in 1843. These volumes, first published in 1875, use information taken from Murchison's private journals and correspondence. Archibald Geikie (1835–1924) provides a detailed account of his mentor's life and work in the context of geology as a developing science in the early nineteenth century, and provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of this eminent Victorian geologist. Volume 2 describes his later life, from 1843 to 1871.

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