Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / by Martin J.S. Rudwick.
Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / by Martin J.S. Rudwick.
Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / by Martin J.S. Rudwick.
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2008.
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N551.7094/1
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English
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xxii, 614 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2008.
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Illinois
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c2008.
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"The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J. S. Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain's Victorian age, chronicling the staggering discoveries geologists made during the period: the uncovering of the first dinosaur fossils, the glacial theory of the l...
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Worlds before Adam : the reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform / by Martin J.S. Rudwick.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N551.7094/1
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0226731286 (hbk.) :
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554.09034
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991000535469702626
