Lyell: The Past is the Key to the Present (Geological Society Special Publication No. 143)

Cover......Page 1
Frontispiece......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Part 1. The life and influence of Lyell......Page 10
Lyell and the Principles of Geology......Page 12
Charles Lyell and the Geological Society......Page 25
Lyell: the man and his times......Page 29
Lyell's reception on the continent of Europe: a contribution to an
open historiographical problem......Page 46
Charles Lyell's debt to North America: his lectures and
travels from 1841 to 1853......Page 60
Charles Lyell in New York State......Page 77
Charles Lyell and the evidences of the antiquity of man......Page 88
Part 2. Lyell and the development of geological science......Page 99
Lyell's Principles of Geology: foundations of sedimentology......Page 101
The Cenozoic Era: Lyellian (chrono)stratigraphy and
nomenclatural reform at the millennium......Page 115
Lyell and the dilemma of Quaternary glaciation......Page 137
Lyell's views on organic progression, evolution
and extinction......Page 152
The age of the Earth and the invention of geological time......Page 156
Charles Lyell and climatic change: speculation and certainty......Page 163
Catastrophism and uniformitarianism: logical roots and current relevance in geology......Page 172
The legacy of Charles Lyell: advances in our knowledge of
coal and coal-bearing strata......Page 184
From William Smith to William Whitaker: the development
of British hydrogeology in the nineteenth century......Page 202
Part 3. The legacy of Lyell......Page 216
The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern
Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex,
west and southwest Pacific-type segment of Iapetus......Page 218
The Carboniferous evolution of Nova Scotia......Page 263
Sequence stratigraphy: a revolution without a cause?......Page 305
Extrusions of Hormuz salt in Iran......Page 317
Mount Etna: monitoring in the past, present and future......Page 337
Earthquakes and Earth structure: a perspective since
Hutton and Lyell......Page 350
Humanity and the modern environment......Page 363
Index......Page 369
Backcover......Page 377